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I've just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my machine, choosing the option to Erase disk and install ubuntu with the advanced option Use LVM with the new Ubuntu installation with encryption. Installation went fine but now when I boot I'm greeted by the GRUB console.

Only way to login is to enter the exit command in the GRUB console.
I'm then prompted with the message : Please unlock disk sda6_crypt, upon entering the password the login screen opens up and all is fine.

My question is : is there no way to bypass this step and go straight for the login screen without entering the GRUB console and having to insert the disk cryptography secret everytime?

MFranc
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If you installed with encryption, that encryption would be pointless if you can get to the login screen without decryption.

To get your system booted to the point where login is operating, a lot of your file-system would need to be visible (meaning unencrypted).

An encrypted $HOME directory allows for you to get to the login screen (where only user files are encrypted, not system files allowing the code before login to be run), but it reads like you opted for full disk encryption which requires the key to unlock before you can boot.

My current desktop has encrypted $HOME, so anyone can turn it on and get to the login/greeter screen (they just can't read my files within my $USER directory until logging in). However for any laptop or device that isn't bound to a desk, I use full-disk encryption.

guiverc
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