Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:44 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:57 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:07 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am pleased to propose gnome-screensaver for inclusion in the GNOME 
> > > 2.14 Desktop release.
> > 
> > I'm in favour with a couple of notes:
> > 
> > 1. I liked the UI for unlocking circa 0.13 much better than the current
> > 2. The extra settings like DPMS need to be exposed like in xscreensaver
> > or move somewhere appropriate
> 
> How about...
> 
> 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.

It is not a security issue.  Root can just kill the screensaver process
if root wants to.  xscreensaver has done this forever.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.