On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 March 2014 11:31:04 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 17 March 2014, Aleix Pol wrote: > > > Hi plasma, > > > Do you know if kde-workspace/libs/kdm and kcheckpass can actually be > > > dropped? > > > It's being used by the screen locker at the moment and I'm feeling > unsure. > > > > uhm, wasn't libs/kdm already dropped? > > anyways, any idea how to do the password check in the lockscreen without > it? > > will it use something coming from lightdm? > > kcheckpass is a binary that just checks the password. It was intended to be > extremely small to make it possible to use suid. This is no longer needed, > one > doesn't need to be suid to check the password. Thus the usecase for > kcheckpass > is no longer needed. > > Cheers > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > So what should we change kcheckpass for? Regarding libs/kdm, the screenlocker uses kgreeterplugin.h. It seems like only one alternative for a screen locker, I can easily remove it but I'd prefer to know what I'm doing. Aleix
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