Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-04-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 15:33:41 -0700, Jordan Sissel wrote: > I am interested in the security concerns here, but are there reliable barriers > between different processes run by the same user in the same desktop session? > What is the threat model y'all are defending against? D-Bus was mentioned e

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-04-04 Thread Jordan Sissel
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers < christopher.halse.rog...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 22:31 Pekka Paalanen wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:28 +0900 >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:59:43 +0200

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-04-04 Thread Jordan Sissel
Reply below, focusing on use cases for now On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:23:46 +1000 > Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > > clients. Note that this is only a

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-29 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:23:46 +1000 Peter Hutterer wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume this is > anything more a thought experiment right now. This email is supposed

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:33:41 -0700 Jordan Sissel said: > I am interested in the security concerns here, but are there reliable > barriers between different processes run by the same user in the same > desktop session? What is the threat model y'all are defending against? the assumption is a mode

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Jordan Sissel wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers < christopher.halse.rog...@canonical.com> wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 22:31 Pekka Paalanen wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:28 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wro

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 22:31 Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:28 +0900 > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:59:43 +0200 Pekka Paalanen > said: > > > > > > == Authentication/Identification == > > > > The goal is to filter clients based on some w

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:31:24 +0300 Pekka Paalanen said: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:28 +0900 > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:59:43 +0200 Pekka Paalanen > > said: > > > > > > == Authentication/Identification == > > > > The goal is to filter clients based

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:20:28 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:59:43 +0200 Pekka Paalanen said: > > > > == Authentication/Identification == > > > The goal is to filter clients based on some white/blacklist, so that e.g. > > > xdotool can access this interfac

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:23:46 +1000 Peter Hutterer said: > Hi all, > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume this is > anything more a thought experiment right now. This email is supposed t

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:59:43 +0200 Pekka Paalanen said: > > == Authentication/Identification == > > The goal is to filter clients based on some white/blacklist, so that e.g. > > xdotool can access this interface but others cannot. > > Hi, > > if one allows a generic tool that essentially expose

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-27 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 11:00 +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:23:46PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > > == Authentication/Identification == > > The goal is to filter clients based on some white/blacklist, so > > that e.g. > > xdotool can access this interface but others can

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-24 Thread Pekka Paalanen
Hi Peter, more questions but not necessarily for you to answer - people who want to make use of the proposed interface should ideally answer most of these. On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:04:57 +1000 Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:59:43PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > On Wed, 22 M

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-23 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:59:43PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:23:46 +1000 > Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > > clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume t

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-22 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:23:46 +1000 Peter Hutterer wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume this is > anything more a thought experiment right now. This email is supposed

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-21 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:24 PM Peter Hutterer wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume this > is > anything more a thought experiment right now. This email is supposed to

Re: [RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-21 Thread Jonas Ådahl
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:23:46PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary > clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume this is > anything more a thought experiment right now. This email is supp

[RFC] Interface for injection of input events

2017-03-21 Thread Peter Hutterer
Hi all, This is an RFC for a new interface to generate input events from arbitrary clients. Note that this is only a few days old, so **do not** assume this is anything more a thought experiment right now. This email is supposed to start a discussion and collection of the various points that need