Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-09 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, > It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't checked). If In Woody too. > Does anyone know if xscreensaver-demo on Potato have an option like > that? No it hasn't. Disabling the feature on each box would be easier at install, but I respect the maintainer choice. Working in a R&D

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-09 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, > It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't checked). If In Woody too. > Does anyone know if xscreensaver-demo on Potato have an option like > that? No it hasn't. Disabling the feature on each box would be easier at install, but I respect the maintainer choice. Working in a R&D

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Thomas> perhaps a *wishlist* item could be added to make this easy to Thomas> toggle from the gnome (or other) capplets. It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't c

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Thomas> perhaps a *wishlist* item could be added to make this easy to Thomas> toggle from the gnome (or other) capplets. It's there in Sid already (maybe Woody too -- haven't

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Benoît Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For now, the xscreensaver maintainer disagrees. > "I disagree. It is NOT a security issue, it has been discussed the last > 3 times it was brought up, and it's easy enough to change if it bothers > you. Neither your bug or the discussion you pointed to a

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Benoît Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For now, the xscreensaver maintainer disagrees. > "I disagree. It is NOT a security issue, it has been discussed the last > 3 times it was brought up, and it's easy enough to change if it bothers > you. Neither your bug or the discussion you pointed to

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Ted Cabeen wrote: > Good call. The default should probably be set to off. A debconf questio= > n of "low" priority would probably also be a good thing. I opened the #128169 bug report ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=128169 ) "For security reasons, xscreensaver shouldn't be all

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-08 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Ted Cabeen wrote: > Good call. The default should probably be set to off. A debconf questio= > n of "low" priority would probably also be a good thing. I opened the #128169 bug report ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=128169 ) "For security reasons, xscreensaver shouldn't be al

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: >Hi, >> Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabbi

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: >Hi, >> Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabb

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, > Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabbing = > > desktop images. If you run xscreensaver-demo, it's in the options tab. = > > =46rom my brief look, none of the xlockmore modes grab the screen. It's correct, but that grabbing desktop images is enable by defa

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-03 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, > Xscreensaver has options that let you prevent screensavers from grabbing = > > desktop images. If you run xscreensaver-demo, it's in the options tab. = > > =46rom my brief look, none of the xlockmore modes grab the screen. It's correct, but that grabbing desktop images is enable by def

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any "security level >configuration"

Re: More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Ben= o=3DEEt?=3D = Sibaud writes: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any "security level >configuration

More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any "security level configuration" for both xscreensaver or xlockmore. What I mean is a way to choose something like a class of screensavers, like 'secure' or 'fun' or both: all screensavers save the screen, but they don't all protect privacy; some scr

More security for screensavers

2002-01-02 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any "security level configuration" for both xscreensaver or xlockmore. What I mean is a way to choose something like a class of screensavers, like 'secure' or 'fun' or both: all screensavers save the screen, but they don't all protect privacy; some sc