From kde-usability Sat Aug 16 16:39:05 2003 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:39:05 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: FIXED: Secure Screen Locking X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=106105229419505 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 12:24, Simon Edwards wrote: > Guys, I really thing that this is something that should be handled by the > root. PAM will already write failed login attempts to the system log. yes, this is basically what i was suggesting: allow PAM to do all the work and simply report on it's activities; whether that is best achieved by following system logs (which may or may not be on the local machine and may or may not be turned on) or by querying PAM directly is another matter. PAM does, AFAIK, offer hooks for programs to query the state of a user's login history using the tally module. > The core problem here is that linux already has very good logging in place, > but AFAIK KDE and the other DEs don't have a mechanisism in place notifying > the current interactive user (i.e. the person behind the mouse) about all > of the interesting info that is placed in the system log. > > Examples of events that should be reported and perhaps acted upon in the > current GUI session: > Does this sound interesting to anyone? yes, it does.. there is already kwrited which handles console messages and puts them in a dialog .. e.g. try wall'ing a message, it's pretty nifty... i often use it when doing sys admin remotely on machines that are being used as desktops/workstations... extending this to system events would be a nice idea... traditional dialogs may be a bit invasive, but a ticker or passive popups would probably do the trick nicely... - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Pl4p1rcusafx20MRAuFjAJ9NkuDREk0kfs2F4Gpx/c9j89IKWQCfToek 1WvN/+e2Bf1VGJSUiZIJw24= =VZCg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability