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How to graphically enter Password to unlock encrypted disk (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there some way I can unlock my btrfs encrypted disk using a graphical unlocking screen.

Basically I was setting up an On-screen keyboard so that I can use my PC in case I do not have a keyboard available. Only problem in setup is that I can't find anyway to use on-screen keyboard on that screen on which we enter password to decrypt disk.

Help please

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's the use case? Is there a reason that the disk is not unlocked at boot/login?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

They're using full disk encryption, which won't let any part of it be read (even its partition table to boot the OS) until a password is entered. A system using FDE will go straight from POST to a password prompt.

A lot of people like FDE as it makes the encryption completely invisible to the OS and would normally have zero compatibility issues be problem-free.