RE: Re: Summary of the security discussions around Wayland and privileged clients

2014-02-27 Thread Dodier-Lazaro, Steve
​> Hi Steve, thanks for the thoughtful response. > > PAM's technical implementation allows a number of modules to be tried in > order for authentication. Your API, as a PAM authentication module, is > limited to four operations: ask the user a non-secret question (with a > textual response), ask th

Re: Summary of the security discussions around Wayland and privileged clients

2014-02-27 Thread Martin Peres
On 27/02/2014 18:01, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Sebastian Wick mailto:sebast...@sebastianwick.net>> wrote: Hey Jasper, maybe I didn't understand what you're saying but why can't you use the application authorization mechanism you're talking about in

Re: Re: Summary of the security discussions around Wayland and privileged clients

2014-02-27 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Hi Steve, thanks for the thoughtful response. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Dodier-Lazaro, Steve < s.dodier-lazaro...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello Jasper, > > A quick reply on some of your emails (grouped to avoid spamming the ML). > > > My experience with PAM and similar "pluggable security mod

RE: Re: Summary of the security discussions around Wayland and privileged clients

2014-02-27 Thread Dodier-Lazaro, Steve
Hello Jasper, A quick reply on some of your emails (grouped to avoid spamming the ML). > My experience with PAM and similar "pluggable security modules" is that > they provide a subpar user experience, are hard to integrate properly into > the system, and have large pain points that stem from ha

Re: Summary of the security discussions around Wayland and privileged clients

2014-02-27 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Sebastian Wick < sebast...@sebastianwick.net> wrote: > Hey Jasper, > > maybe I didn't understand what you're saying but why can't you use the > application authorization mechanism you're talking about in a "WSM"? > Wouldn't it make sense to make it independent of

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Matthias Clasen
For comparison, here is the dbus API that gnome-shell is exposing for display configuration under both X and wayland: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/Gaps/DisplayConfig ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://

RE: [PATCH 0/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Wang, Quanxian
-Original Message- From: wayland-devel-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:wayland-devel-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Hardening Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:15 PM To: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add weston randr protocol Le 27/02/

RE: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Wang, Quanxian
-Original Message- From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:ppaala...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:45 PM To: Wang, Quanxian Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Zhang, Xiong Y Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:15:55 + "Wang, Quanxian

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:15:55 + "Wang, Quanxian" wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:ppaala...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:36 PM > To: Wang, Quanxian > Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Zhang, Xiong Y > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6]

Re: [PATCH] FreeRds backend, simplifications and improvements take 2

2014-02-27 Thread Hardening
Le 26/02/2014 19:14, Mariusz Ceier a écrit : Hi, I did some basic testing of this version, and it seems to be as stable as x11-backend :) Issues that still aren't resolved: - when trying to enter polish letter they send either ^C or characters from different keymap(?), depending on client us

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Hardening
Le 27/02/2014 04:27, Quanxian Wang a écrit : These patches will provide weston randr protocol, its implementation and randr application. The idea is from xrandr provided by xserver. *Dynamic* mode setting is the main objective of this protocol. Remember, it is one shot operation. For example, if

RE: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Wang, Quanxian
-Original Message- From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:ppaala...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:36 PM To: Wang, Quanxian Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Zhang, Xiong Y Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:06:23 + "Wang, Quanxian

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:06:23 + "Wang, Quanxian" wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:ppaala...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:28 PM > To: Wang, Quanxian > Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Zhang, Xiong Y > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6]

RE: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol

2014-02-27 Thread Wang, Quanxian
-Original Message- From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:ppaala...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:28 PM To: Wang, Quanxian Cc: wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Zhang, Xiong Y Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add weston randr protocol On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:28:00 +0800 Quanxian Wang