On Wed, 19.12.07 11:32, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > The right behaviour is to make sure inactive sessions cannot interfere > > with your IO devices while they are inactive. And IO devices are > > keyboards, mice, screens *and* sound cards. > > Sound cards are *not* like keyboards, mice and screens. > A keyboard is only providing a service to the person typing on it > A mice is only providing a service to the person which has it in its hand > > Any semi-decent speaker can provide music services to everyone in a > room, (even a different room of the one where the computer is) not > just the person in front of the computer. Time shifting means a user > can access sound devices even after his desktop session went inactive > or closed. > > Printing is outputting info too. Will we limit printer access to the > active session too to get the "right" behaviour? With a printer you cannot really spy on people. With access to the sound card you can. Very easily. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
