Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian
* Julien Jehannet [Fri Jan 02, 2015 at 04:19:10PM +0100]: 2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov evg...@grml.org: On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +, sajolida wrote: I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had a real mechanism to do so. They either: - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml, Jondo Live). Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before using it, obviously ;) grml-lock actually checks if a password is set and if that's not the case then grml-lock prompts for setting one (to avoid locking yourself out). FYI, note that Debian disabled the --new switch in vlock which limit now the desktop locking capability. Here is what you can read in the NEWS file: vlock (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium This update disables the new.so plugin and thus the --new switch, because it proved too hard to fix it properly. See #702705. See also: Debian Bug report logs - #702705 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702705 Meh, how sad. Thanks for the pointer, Julien. regards, -mika- signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian
Axel Beckert: - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml, Jondo Live). At least for grml, that's wrong. grml-full ships vlock which can lock all consoles (and switching back to X) at once with the option -a. Right. I tried both grml-lock as advertised by Evgeni and vlock as advertised by you. Actually, grml-lock provides a similar user experience as the one that we imagined for Tails: if you didn't set a password it asks for one before locking the screen. On the other hand as Julien pointed out, the --new option of vlock is broken right now and as a consequence grml-lock doesn't work. Both in a console and in X it errors with vlock: loading plugin 'new' failed: No such file or directory. Shall I report a Grml bug about that? -- sajolida ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian
Hi, On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +, sajolida wrote: I'm part of the people working on Tails, a live distribution that aims at preserving privacy and anonymity: https://tails.boum.org/. Tails is currently lacking a screen locker and this has been a frequent feature request. See https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5684. [...] I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had a real mechanism to do so. They either: - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml, Jondo Live). At least for grml, that's wrong. grml-full ships vlock which can lock all consoles (and switching back to X) at once with the option -a. I though don't know if it works from under X, but it works fine if you switch to a text console first, e.g. with Ctrl-Alt-F1. What do you think? Please answer to tails-dev@boum.org and feel free to subscribe to the list to follow the thread: Cc'ed, but didn't subscribe. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian
2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov evg...@grml.org: Hi, On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +, sajolida wrote: I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had a real mechanism to do so. They either: - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml, Jondo Live). Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before using it, obviously ;) FYI, note that Debian disabled the --new switch in vlock which limit now the desktop locking capability. Here is what you can read in the NEWS file: vlock (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium This update disables the new.so plugin and thus the --new switch, because it proved too hard to fix it properly. See #702705. See also: Debian Bug report logs - #702705 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702705 ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian
Hi, On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +, sajolida wrote: I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had a real mechanism to do so. They either: - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml, Jondo Live). Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before using it, obviously ;) Greets Evgeni [1] https://github.com/grml/grml-scripts/blob/master/usr_bin/grml-lock -- Bruce Schneier can read and understand Perl programs. ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
