On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:48:53PM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: // Eric Sandall wrote: // >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- // >Hash: SHA1 // > // >On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Carsten Haitzler wrote: // > // >>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:59:27 -0800 (PST) Eric Sandall // >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: // >> // >>>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Aleksej Struk wrote: // >>> // >>>>The feature is still under development. Actually, the unlocking // >>>>through the user system wide password will be implemented too. // >>>>For now, the personal desklock password is, more or less, a temporal // >>>>feature. // >>> // >>><snip> // >>> // >>>As I'm not the one coding this I probably don't have much input ;), // >>>but IMO the only password allowed should be the already setup user // >>>password, not Yet Another Password that the user has to define and // >>>remember (though they could use the same password as their account // >>>password, but then that opens up 'security' issues with who gets // >>>access to where this password is stored, is it encrypted, etc.). // >> // >> // >>the problem is - to handle the "user password" is a massive pain in // >>the arse. you need to use PAM or getpwent() and this presents some // >>serious problems. what if your user account details live in an ldap // >>db? sure - pam wraps this and handles it, but now we bind ourselves to // >>pam - which is a bit problematic to use in a portable way even between // >>linux distributions. // >> // >>also note - this is no worse than leaving your desktop unlocked and // >>someone walking by and going "rm -rf ~/*" in a terminal. if you walk // >>away from your machine and leave it unlocked - it's fair game for // >>ANYTHING. someone locking it with a pw u don't know is fairly harmless // >>compared to other things they can do. // > // > // >Shouldn't desklock just use xscreensaver then? That would take care of // >all the authentication (unix, PAM, KRB5, etc.) for us as well as // >providing various backgrounds (as mentioned in the other thread) // >through the screensavers. It'd also save duplicating a lot of work, // >IMO. // > // That meens it doesn't work without xscrennsaver ? // // // // // Juste for fun, a Mini HOWTO lock screen with xscreensaver under e17 :-P // // 1) create a startup action to run xscreensaver // // 2) In key binding settings. // // 2.1) remove desktop lock key binding // // 2.2) add a User Defined Action // // Binding context : Any // Key Binding : Alt l // Action : exec // Params : /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -lock // // // my 2 cts // // Fran?ois
Good for you :) you can use it as well. You also can use it if you work in KDE, although KDE presents its own desktop lockin mechanism. :) It is actually the same as to have entrance instead of xdm. Same crap. Or to have twm instead of E. I personaly do not like "standard" xlock or xscreensaver. I like to to have nice desktop locking screen, where I can choose what I want to have on my locked screens. That is the reason I do this staff. Have a nice evening. // // // >- -sandalle // > // >- -- // >Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer // >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcemage.org/ // >http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU // >http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ // >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- // >Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) // > // >iD8DBQFEBhRLHXt9dKjv3WERAibxAJ0ct5axGIKatsGpY/Wa7r14k7e7ewCfX3/3 // >g4Jz97PDLEEaSyfXA2WHdOg= // >=NF0W // >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- // > // > // >------------------------------------------------------- // >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language // >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live // >webcast // >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! // >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 // >_______________________________________________ // >enlightenment-devel mailing list // >enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net // >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel // > // > // -- Aleksej Struk Master Degree Student Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Faculty of Computer Science phone: +39-0471-061749 cell phone: +39-3204627049 +370-61278908 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
