Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion

2011-05-26 Thread Izo
On 25 May 2011 23:36, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Izo designby...@gmail.com wrote: Name a time/date that is most convenient for you guys. =] @Scott: Sunday sometime? If you could provide me with the essentials on LightDM theming, that would be handy.

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion

2011-05-26 Thread C K
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Izo designby...@gmail.com wrote: Right, think I'm about done with this now. This is how I, potentially at least, see the Ubuntu Studio Oneiric desktop. PLEASE NOTE: this isn't prescriptive, I'm not saying, This is DEFINITELY how the desktop should look, GET ON

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: As we have continued to close kernel address leaks, the kernel syslog (dmesg) remains one of the last large places where information is being reported. As such, I want to close this off from regular users so that local kernel exploits

Re: Patch Pilot Report 2011-05-25

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 09:45 -0400 schrieb Stéphane Graber: The following should be removed from the sponsor list: [...] All done except the following, because I can't change the status for it. https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/ubuntu/natty/sudo/lp-768625/+merge/58762 (mvo uploaded

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-26 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Kees Cook's message of Wed May 25 10:01:12 -0700 2011: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:07:14AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 06:00:17 PM Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Kees Cook's message of Tue May 24 11:46:48 -0700 2011: One unresolved problem is

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:36:16PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: So if needed, you can implement attach_dmesg() with attach_root_command_outputs(). Ah, perfect. That'll be the way to go, then. But aside from that I do agree with Steve that it both seems a lot safer as well as more convenient and

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:37:47PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Kees Cook [2011-05-25 12:05 -0700]: Currently, the upstream kernel folks have rejected filtering printk. That's not actually what I meant. Don't filter the outputs of printk() with some regexps. I meant just kill the printk() call

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:49:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: In Oneiric, I'd like to change the default availability of yet another long-standing system debugging feature: dmesg. I think this is a bridge too far. dmesg is a

Re: Patch Pilot Report 2011-05-25

2011-05-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Benjamin Drung [2011-05-26 18:48 +0200]: All done except the following, because I can't change the status for it. https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/ubuntu/natty/sudo/lp-768625/+merge/58762 (mvo uploaded to proposed) Set to merged. Martin -- Martin Pitt|

Onscreen keyboard and dwelling in LightDM

2011-05-26 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello Robert, You might remember that I already opened a thread about onscreen keyboards, dwelling and display manager shortly before UDS-O. LightDM being the default display manager for Ubuntu 11.10, I would like to ask whether there is already a plan about integrating accessibility