On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:56 AM Bryan Quigley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lastly, I wanted to know if there are any security differences in how > the login/lock screens work? > Specifically: > Is their a process I can kill from a user session to break the lock? > If I'm able to crash the lock screen, is the user session destroyed or > unlocked? > Which would be easier to add functionality to block new USB > drives/other devices from being connected when the screen is locked? > > I'm not 100% familiar with the source but as I understand it gnome-shell is the lock screen, so killing the lock screen could only be done by killing the whole shell. A bug in the lock screen code will cause the session to be unlocked. This is the same behaviour as Unity since Yakkety (I think?). --Robert
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