On Tuesday 11 October 2011 15:33:39 Torgny Nyblom wrote: > On Tuesday 11 October 2011 14.55.29 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > On Monday 10 October 2011 20:02:07 Parker Coates wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 14:02, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > > I want to request a security audit for the changes to ensure that > > > > the new implementation is as secure as the existing one and that I > > > > did not forget an important case which would compromise the > > > > security. > > > > > > > > The general concept of the new screenlocker is described in the > > > > wiki: > > > > http://community.kde.org/KWin/Screenlocker > > > > > > > >> Screensavers without Locking > > > >> No valid use case: should no longer be supported. > > > > > > Could you elaborate on this part? What is meant by "screensavers > > > without locking"? > > > > Just running the screen saver animation without locking the screen. That > > is > > moving the mouse deactivates the screensaver without asking for a > > password. > > Does this mean that I will be focred to use a screensaver with password > unlock? If so why is that not a vaild usecase? It's what I use at home all > the time. It is not a valid usecase for a screen *locker* to support that. The legacy implementation still supports just using a screen saver, though this will go away in 4.9 after current planning.
I ask you to stay on-topic in this thread on the security of the locker. If you want to discuss about the screen saver animations please start a new thread and preferable not on kcd but on workspace relevant mailing lists such as kwin or plasma-devel. Thanks Martin > > /Regards > Torgny
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