After upgrading to Fedora 42, I am seeing this line on the LUKS disk encryption unlock screen. How do I disable this?
I think you can enroll a key into your motherboard TPM to unlock the disk.
Doing a web search for âluks tpn suto unlockâ shows a number of promising pages.
This should get you started: Chapter 10. Configuring automated unlocking of encrypted volumes by using policy-based decryption | Red Hat Product Documentation
Hi and welcome to 
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If I understand correctly, you would like to not have the text below the passphrase entry displayed on screen.
This seems to have been introduced with F42 indeed, and I agree that from a UI perspective isnât very friendly. Neither is it very helpful, at least not the part with the LUKS UUID, which most users wonât remember anyway, and at this stage itâs obvious that itâs the root partition for which the passphrase is required.
I donât know if/where it can be tweaked though.
Iâm not looking to bypass the password prompt completely. I simply want that text under the password field to be gone.
Yes, that is exactly what I am looking for. A user on Reddit pointed out a workaround that I have not tested:
apparently it was introduced by one of the patches a few changes ago.
what i ended up doing was grabbing the srpm, changing the spec file to comment out the particular patch #Patch: 0001-label-freetype-fix-fallback-not-working-when-fc-matc.patch
then rebuilt the package, incrementing the version number so it doesnât get reverted to the old package
Since my Fedora Workstation is my primary computer, I am hesitant to rebuild system packages. I am leaving this here in case anyone else would like to try this workaround and mark it as a solution if appropriate.
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So there is no hope that it will be removed? Or at least that it is modified? The ideal would be not to have that text at all, but having a more user-friendly text would already be something; maybe a string that can then be translated into the various languages. Of course, I mean something out-of-the-box, without the user having to recompile anything.
I also hope there will be a fix for this, the experience in Fedore 41 was much better!
I donât think there is hope of this happening. But if the community makes itself heard, perhapsâŚ
I think this is related to: Changes/PlymouthUseSimpledrm - Fedora Project Wiki
related topic: "Please enter passphrase for disk..." has returned
bug report including potential workaround: 2356893 â Text Appearing under LUKS decryption box
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Yes, it is.
It is a choice that has technical benefits but that users do not like (including me) for the graphic result. I donât think we can go back on this. But if the community in the Issue Trackers is united in reporting possible changes that lead to an improvement, perhaps something can be obtained. For example, improve the name of the disc and make the string translatable into the various languages.
remember to do this at cryptsetup repo, not plymouthâŚ
I did it at plymouth > they postponed me at cryptsetup > then they postponed me at systemd. You can find my issue reports in their bug tracker.
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