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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: FIXED: Secure Screen Locking
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-16 16:57:57
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On Friday 15 August 2003 20:24, Simon Edwards wrote:
> [I just wrote a page of text and Kmail crashed. no dead.letter. grrr]
>
> On Friday 15 August 2003 01:03, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 August 2003 04:11, Eron Lloyd wrote:
> > > Oops...end of the day mistake. Here is the final file instead, fixing
> > > item # 3.
> >
> > interesting idea... i'd suggest that the failed attempts should not be
> > shown on-screen by default (in case you had simply mistyped your password
> > by one keystroke; don't want that shown).. perhaps a "Show Failed
> > Attempts" button that expands to show the table of failed attempts...
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> * Network connection up/down
> * Printer up/down
> * Digital camera connected and available for use.
> * Disk space down to 5%.
> * etc.

Havoc wants to create some sort of hardware abstraction layer using DBUS to 
communicate changes like that. (From root --> users)

Havoc, do you happen to have a URL about that somewhere?

Cheers,
Waldo
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