On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Marc Deslauriers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14-03-06 12:19 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> That's a topic that has been discussed between different groups of people >> recently, on merge requests [1] and bug reports, and it feels like we should >> have the discussion on a common place/together, to decide what is best, and >> all >> do the same thing. >> >> Summary of the issue: >> - in unity8 we use the greeter as a lock screen >> - we want to have informations from the users available on the lock screen >> ("currently playing song" for example) >> - we need a way to get those informations from the session to the greeter > > Wouldn't a better design be to have the lock screen in the user's session? > That > way each user can have their own lock screen, and it can access the user's > data > without any security issue and difficulty in transferring data between > different > security contexts... >
I'm quite surprised that you don't consider that a security issue :) Would you mind elaborating on the reasoning why the session is safe enough for the lock screen? Thomas > Marc. > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
