How can I make LUKS show me the number of characters I'm entering when unlocking my drive?
It's kind of buggy where I'll enter characters but they won't register. I can verify this because when booting, sometimes my num and caps lock keys will have a delay after pressing before their light changes.
This is very annoying when trying to unlock the computer, because I essentially have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before I think inputs will register properly. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if I could, you know, get some feedback that they keys I'm entering are actually being entered.
Is there a way to change this to suit my needs better?
By default, Fedora shows the per-character dots. It's probably something in plymouth.
In whatever centos uses for a prompt, it says "press tab for echo", and it works. You'll need to provide more info about your environment if you don't have that option.
I changed my mkinitcpio hook from the busybox init
encryptto systemd initsd-encryptto help with this, as it presents a different way to unlock a LUKS partition. Be sure to read the notes aboutsd-vconsoleif you use this hook. Your mileage may vary since im not sure which OS you're on.https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Common_hooks
You may want to check out openSUSE. It does this on a system where
/is encrypted but/bootis not.Perhaps this is a little overkill, but you could install a display manager like GDM or SDDM that displays a graphical password input.
They're asking about the password prompt for the disk encryption, which is shown before the rootfs can be accessed. Thus, installing a display manager to the rootfs will not help. Furthermore, a display manager serves the purpose of logging in users, not unlocking an encrypted partition.
You are right! I meant to refer to Plymouth, which will do what I described. It's been a while since I did this.