On Friday, 13 May 2011 at 20:17, Alexander Larsson wrote: I think we should focus on automatic login into a locked session. There > are various issues here, like: > > * Must add keyring unlocking to unlock screen > * keyrings are only availible once you're unlocked, which means some > things need to wait for some signal that the keyring is up before doing > stuff. > * Encrypted homedirs are problematic since we can't e.g. read the users > preferences before we unlock. > * Don't want to start autostart apps or start the session before we've > authenticated, as there might be security issues.
MeeGo for Netbooks does this. It's not perfect and we've made several design choices that ease the implementation, but it does work -- we login to the session with a locked screen. We even support encrypted home partitions, not sure what happens the though... Ross _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
