sajolida: > Hi, Gentle ping regarding what follows as we haven't heard back from your distribution. Does this seems like an interesting solution for you? Would you install such a package if it was available in Debian? Would you put effort in developing or maintaining it?
> I'm part of the people working on Tails, a live distribution that aims > at preserving privacy and anonymity: https://tails.boum.org/. Tails is > currently lacking a screen locker and this has been a frequent feature > request. See https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5684. > > For example, as Tails is been adopted more and more by journalists, > they want to be able to leave their computer unattended in their > office to go to the toilets for a minute and have their screen locked. > > I'm writing this emails to various Live distributions based on Debian > (Knoppix, Grml, Jondo, Kali, Debian Live, and Tanglu). I'm also > putting Micah Lee in copy as he has shown particular interest in this > feature. > > I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various > Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had > a real mechanism to do so. They either: > > - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml, > Jondo Live). > - Either rely on their default password to unlock the screen (Kali, > Tanglu, Debian Live). > > The purpose of this email is to know whether you would be interested > in working on a common Debian package to provide a generic screen > locking solution for Debian based live distributions. > > The core usability issue that we are facing here is the one of the > unlocking password. As we are live distributions, there either is no > password or a default one. Still, screen locking only make sense if > the user is able to use a custom password. As an interesting exception, > note that in Jondo Live, the user is prompted for a user password on > boot. In Tails the user can set up an administration password but this > is disabled by default for security reasons so we cannot rely on this > for screen locking. > > During our last monthly meeting we came up with the idea of asking for > a custom password *in the process of locking the screen* for the first > time. For example, in GNOME, when doing Meta+L for the first time, the > user would be prompted to enter a screen locking password, then only > the screen would get locked. If she locks the screen again, the same > password would be reused. > > What do you think? Please answer to tails-dev@boum.org and feel free to > subscribe to the list to follow the thread: > > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev/ -- sajolida _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
