Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver
- From: Dan Winship <danw novell com>
- To: Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>
- Cc: release-team gnome org, William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>, JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:22:01 -0400
Rodney Dawes wrote:
3. Unlocking the screen with the root password should do the same as
choosing switch users, and logging in as root. Not doing so is a privacy
and security issue, as it may allow root access to remote hosts, that
root normally does not have access to.
Typing the root password into gnome-screensaver (when a non-root user is
logged in) should not do anything special at all, because the
administrator has no way of knowing that the "unlock dialog" isn't
really a trojan horse being run by the logged-in user, and so we really
shouldn't give him any reason to type the root password into it.
-- Dan
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