On Tuesday 18 March 2014 11:31:04 Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2014, Aleix Pol wrote: > > Hi plasma, > > Do you know if kde-workspace/libs/kdm and kcheckpass can actually be > > dropped? > > It's being used by the screen locker at the moment and I'm feeling unsure. > > uhm, wasn't libs/kdm already dropped? > anyways, any idea how to do the password check in the lockscreen without it? > will it use something coming from lightdm?
kcheckpass is a binary that just checks the password. It was intended to be extremely small to make it possible to use suid. This is no longer needed, one doesn't need to be suid to check the password. Thus the usecase for kcheckpass is no longer needed. Cheers Martin
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