Re: [Tails-dev] Lock the location services switch
Hi, Thanks a lot! I've recorded this in a new issue: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20071 I would happily review a tested MR that implemented these changes: https://tails.net/contribute/how/code/ Cheers, -- intrigeri ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] Lock the location services switch
> On Dec 1, 2023, at 5:39 PM, Astral Projection > wrote: > > So a friend of mine was confused about a setting in tails. They were trying > tails for the first time and were going through the settings and saw location > services can be turned on and got worried. > > I assured them that it doesn’t matter because that feature requires geoclue > to work which is not included in tails. > > Locking the switch to prevent this setting from being able to be turned on > (even though it requires geoclue to work) would be a good idea to implement > and easy to implement. I like this idea, it adds clarity. It shouldn't be possible to turn "on" a capability if it doesn't turn on anything. It might be wise to clearly document in the *user* documentation that geoclue isn't installed, and thus location services don't work. I'd give bonus points if there was a documented way to *enable* geoclue & more generally location services, as long as it's off by default. However, it seems to me that anonymity and providing location services are not exactly compatible. So if it just doesn't work, so be it. --- David A. Wheeler ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
[Tails-dev] Lock the location services switch
So a friend of mine was confused about a setting in tails. They were trying tails for the first time and were going through the settings and saw location services can be turned on and got worried. I assured them that it doesn’t matter because that feature requires geoclue to work which is not included in tails. Locking the switch to prevent this setting from being able to be turned on (even though it requires geoclue to work) would be a good idea to implement and easy to implement. I tested this and it did work in both tails and on normal Gnome desktop. Source: https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/dconf-lockdown.html.en https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/desktop-background.html.en Requires setting value in local.d file to correspond to locks keyfile Add this line to: /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00_Tails_defaults [org/gnome/system/location] enabled = false Then create this directory /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks Create file named something like 00_location-services-disable-switch in that directory add this line to that file: /org/gnome/system/location/enabled Now go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services and you can see that switch is locked and setting can't be turned on in the slider ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
