I don't see why the need to reinstall... provided you manage to open the encrypted (LUKS) filesystem once, there is a procedure to add more passwords to it, I can dig the procedure on my notes tomorrow, perhaps.
That is precisely the problem. You cannot open the file system once. If you set the system up with a complex password on a non-US keyboard, you learn that you cannot open the system at all. The only solution is to reinstall the system using a temprorary password that works in both in opensuse's default US keyboard layout and your own international keyboard. Only then can you get into the system and use the luks procedure to add a proper password and delete the temporary one. Clearly, this is ridiculous.
I'm not sure of that install phase,
It is the last thing in the install phase: the bit where you login to your new system. It asks for its disk encryption password at a command line prompt. It asks for the password it created with a UK keyboard layout to be entered using a US keyboard layout.
- on boot, it will use the US keyboard.
Yes, that is the problem.
- thus make sure you now, during install, use keys that are the same both in the US keyboard and your local one.
Yes, you learn this the hard way. You learn that when opensuse installer offers you an option to choose your local langauge and local keyboard layout from a dropdown list of international options, you should refuse the offer. Because the only way to install opensuse if you use a complex encryption password is if you choose US language and layout. It is not possible to choose your local layout and then type only keys compatible with the US layout. Nobody besides Lou Gerster himself has that degree of knowledge about key-level compatibilities of international IBM keyboard layouts.
We have more different keys. In Spanish and French, for instance, we have "accents". In German, they have, how they call it... umlauts? Some keys do not produce output the first time you press them, the result depends on the next key you press.
I can just barely guess what happens with non Latin alphabet languages.
So with the exception of those who speak North American, opensuse forces everyone in the entire world to endure a hellish install and enourages them to use an insecure encryption password. cheers. mb. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org