This time Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:21 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: >> Timothy R. Butler wrote: >>> I'd like to propose an idea that I think could easily be implemented by >>> 9.1 final and would be really great. I mean, wonderful. Most of you >>> probably know the term "Fast user switching" from the Windows XP >>> marketingspeak. Most of you also know that GNU/Linux is fully capable of >>> doing the same thing. > >> Of course, we have had this much longer than XP, but the >> point-and-clickers (the one's who would currently not be able to fix >> their mouse with MCC if their mouse wasn't working) would think XP had >> it first, because XP has a GUI for it. > > What we have is different. There is no security, for example. Someone could > wander in, switch to their own screen and be working on it when you came > back, and if you assumed you had logged out they would then be likely to have > an opportunity to go through your stuff. > > What would be needed to work around this are a text-mode tool and > modifications to the screensavers (in KDE and xscreensaver). > > The screensaver mod would detect the X instance losing focus and immediately > throw the screensaver into a mode where it locked the session until it again > achieved focus, then whoever focussed on the session would need to know the > user's password to be able to get past the screensaver. Uhm...if you use GDM's New Login thing, this is what it does...it blocks the previous X session with xscreensaver, you need a password to get back into the previous session(s). > Likewise the text console mod would blank the console when it lost focus, and > demand a password before unblanking when focus returned. vlock can do this, IIRC. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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