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Tue, 12/04/2007 - 7:10am — gimi (not verified)

Password and special chars

Please note:

In case the default US keyboard layout does not fit to your keyboard you may get in trouble when using some special chars in your password. Just think of swapped y and z or german umlauts and some more.

Desperated half an hour before i got the point on line "Enter LUKS Passphrase: " ...

gimi

PS: thanks for your great howto!

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