On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:38:16 -0800 (PST) Eric Sandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:59:27 -0800 (PST) Eric Sandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > babbled: > >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Aleksej Struk wrote: > >>> The feature is still under development. Actually, the unlocking > >>> through the user system wide password will be implemented too. > >>> For now, the personal desklock password is, more or less, a temporal > >>> feature. > >> <snip> > >> > >> As I'm not the one coding this I probably don't have much input ;), > >> but IMO the only password allowed should be the already setup user > >> password, not Yet Another Password that the user has to define and > >> remember (though they could use the same password as their account > >> password, but then that opens up 'security' issues with who gets > >> access to where this password is stored, is it encrypted, etc.). > > > > the problem is - to handle the "user password" is a massive pain in the > > arse. you need to use PAM or getpwent() and this presents some serious > > problems. what if your user account details live in an ldap db? sure - pam > > wraps this and handles it, but now we bind ourselves to pam - which is a > > bit problematic to use in a portable way even between linux distributions. > > > > also note - this is no worse than leaving your desktop unlocked and someone > > walking by and going "rm -rf ~/*" in a terminal. if you walk away from your > > machine and leave it unlocked - it's fair game for ANYTHING. someone > > locking it with a pw u don't know is fairly harmless compared to other > > things they can do. > > Shouldn't desklock just use xscreensaver then? That would take care of > all the authentication (unix, PAM, KRB5, etc.) for us as well as > providing various backgrounds (as mentioned in the other thread) > through the screensavers. It'd also save duplicating a lot of work, > IMO. u can bind this to a key and exec xscreensaver to lock already - u have been able to do that ever since. e's lock is separate and independent of xscreensaver. > - -sandalle > > - -- > Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcemage.org/ > http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU > http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEBhRLHXt9dKjv3WERAibxAJ0ct5axGIKatsGpY/Wa7r14k7e7ewCfX3/3 > g4Jz97PDLEEaSyfXA2WHdOg= > =NF0W > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
