Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-09 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't checked). If In Woody too. Does anyone know if xscreensaver-demo on Potato have an option like that? No it hasn't. Disabling the feature on each box would be easier at install, but I respect the maintainer choice. Working in a RD

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Ted Cabeen wrote: Good call. The default should probably be set to off. A debconf questio= n of low priority would probably also be a good thing. I opened the #128169 bug report ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=128169 ) For security reasons, xscreensaver shouldn't be

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Benoît Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For now, the xscreensaver maintainer disagrees. I disagree. It is NOT a security issue, it has been discussed the last 3 times it was brought up, and it's easy enough to change if it bothers you. Neither your bug or the discussion you pointed to adds

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas == Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Thomas perhaps a *wishlist* item could be added to make this easy to Thomas toggle from the gnome (or other) capplets. It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't checked).

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Ted Cabeen wrote: Good call. The default should probably be set to off. A debconf questio= n of low priority would probably also be a good thing. I opened the #128169 bug report ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=128169 ) For security reasons, xscreensaver shouldn't be allowed

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Benoît Sibaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For now, the xscreensaver maintainer disagrees. I disagree. It is NOT a security issue, it has been discussed the last 3 times it was brought up, and it's easy enough to change if it bothers you. Neither your bug or the discussion you pointed to adds

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas == Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Thomas perhaps a *wishlist* item could be added to make this easy to Thomas toggle from the gnome (or other) capplets. It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't checked).

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabbing = desktop images. If you run xscreensaver-demo, it's in the options tab. = =46rom my brief look, none of the xlockmore modes grab the screen. It's correct, but that grabbing desktop images is enable by default

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Cabeen
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Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabbing = desktop images. If you run xscreensaver-demo, it's in the options tab. = =46rom my brief look, none of the xlockmore modes grab the screen. It's correct, but that grabbing desktop images is enable by default

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: Hi, Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabbi= ng

More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any security level configuration for both xscreensaver or xlockmore. What I mean is a way to choose something like a class of screensavers, like 'secure' or 'fun' or both: all screensavers save the screen, but they don't all protect privacy; some

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any security level configuration for

More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any security level configuration for both xscreensaver or xlockmore. What I mean is a way to choose something like a class of screensavers, like 'secure' or 'fun' or both: all screensavers save the screen, but they don't all protect privacy; some

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any security level configuration for