Hi, On 02/12/2023 15:23, Simon Tatham wrote:
I run xtrlock on a machine which doesn't store all its passwd/shadow entries locally. So xtrlock is unable to verify my password by the usual method. To get around this, I added a feature which replaces the passwd/shadow based check with a user-provided subprogram. xtrlock pipes the password into the subprogram's standard input, and unlocks the screen if the program exits with a success status.
Thanks for this and the attached patches; I think it's a useful addition to xtrlock.
Both patches are attached. At the moment, they lack documentation, and also the hourglass-pointer patch is unconditional rather than configurable. I'm prepared to do extra polishing effort if it's useful!
I think both docs and making the hourglass optional would be good, please; I'm sorry I've not done anything more useful in terms of review yet, but I'm currently a bit swamped, and I thought at least some reply would be better than continued silence!
Regards, Matthew
