On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:01:49PM -0400, Chris Bredesen wrote: >> >This is the Gnome 3 "shield". Hit ESC twice, or _drag_ the mouse upward. >> >You're not the first person to be confused by this -- hopefully this can get >> >somewhat better in a future version. >> [Enter] works as well. Agreed, it should be clearer on the shield >> what the user needs to do to proceed. > > It would also be nice for it to respond to modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt), > as many people are conditioned to use these as the "safe" way to cleara > screensaver. Is the 'Secure attention sequence" useful on Linux in general? Supporting what people are used to is valuable in its own right, but is there any security advantage to users using a special sequence to commence unlocking in GNU+Linux? I'd personally not want to use it because I've seen too many GNU+Linux systems get rebooted by a C+A+D that was intended as a SAS. > And, really, I'd very much like the option to opt-out. (There's an > extension, but it doesn't work very well.) On my Fedora 19 system, I can just ignore the shield and begin typing my pass-phrase and it gets out of the way and I can log in like normal. So I'm not particularly against the shield. I'm still quite curious why the shield was created. i.e. If one was a good idea, why aren't there seventeen? I'd personally like seeing the shield stay down while locked, so that the length of my pass-phrase is never visible. _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
