On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure I see your point. Changing focus to another window just > to type a passphrase seems at best to add zero benefit and at worst > to provide surprise and distraction. What is the benefit? [snip] Presumably the GUI password dialog can XGrabKeyboard to prevent keyboard sniffing. Your terminal can probably do it to, but you probably have to tell it to and you probably do not. A central unspoofable password dialog does make sense for improving security, Fedora isn't there yet… but CLI apps kicking you to some external dialog for passwords is a necessary step to that end. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
