On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:53:02AM +0100, markus schnalke wrote: > [2009-12-19 21:37] pancake <panc...@youterm.com> > > > > I have done two patches for slock. > > > > The first simplifying the use of cpp and the other adding user > > defined password. > > The password should probably not be a clear text string inside the > binary file, as one can easily read it with `strings slock'. > > Is there a secure hash function in standard C? I think not. Linking > some external library for this, seems to be overkill. > > Maybe we could give slock a system account to check the password > against. Thus it must not to be the own account, but can be a special > slock system user, which exists just for this task. > > Unfortunately only root users will have the ability to set different > passwords then. > > > meillo > >
And only root-users will be able to use slock then, so it doesn't work for people working on public machines, for instance at university. Moritz
