Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 23:42 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Chris Murphy > > wrote: > >> > >> On May 3, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: > >>> > >>> I believe that this is a major security risk and that t

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > More to the point, the vast majority of the other software *in Fedora* > that accepts passwords for any reason hides the passwords as they are > typed. If this is really broken (and who knows; neither side has > really produced much in

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-04 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I think spot will agree there is no way we'll ever ship a font consisting > of company logos, it's trademark hell We ship *lots* of trademarked logos. In Firefox alone there are trademarked logos from Mozilla, Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Micr

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-04 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/03/2013 09:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: [cut] I'm truly a font newbie. That said, is there really a meaningful fallback for a font such as sozial (https://github.com/adamstac/zocial)? I. e., is there a reasonable fallback for a Facebook button? I think spot will agree there is no way we

Re: Q: bundled fonts.

2013-05-04 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/03/2013 04:15 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 23 avril 2013 19:10, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit : There will probably be more of this, fedora-review is updated with a new test looking for bundled font files.My gut feeling is also that there are some other bundled fonts in existing packages.

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On May 3, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: >>> >>> I believe that this is a major security risk and that this is a new UI >>> change going forward and this is not a bug. >>> >>> Do yo

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 04:42:58PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > If they do decide to keep the change, you could escalate it to FESCo. > However, (speaking only for myself here) I would be VERY reluctant to > override maintainers on their packages on something that is a design > decision/judgemen

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 17:06 -0600, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > On May 4, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > Or I could also speak of the small non standard keyboard such as macbook > > one where ~ or | are not printed and where using the wrong keyboard > > could result in wrong ch

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 15:22 -0700, Dan Mashal a écrit : > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in favor of > > the proposal : > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wit_2.html > > http://www.s

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 May 2013 19:23, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Another opinion. > > It is possible to study such things, and even give caveats and error > bounds to show uncertainty. > > Yes and no. It's possible it a tightly defined setting with specified outcomes. Since a crucial factors here include how li

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 15:58 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > > If they do decide to keep the change, you could escalate it to FESCo. > > However, (speaking only for myself here) I would be VERY reluctant to > > override maintainers on their packages on something that is a design > > decision/judgement c

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 May 2013 23:42, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2013 15:22:01 -0700 > Dan Mashal wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Adam Williamson > > wrote: > > > > http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/1248242/fedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords > > > > > > Well, that escalated quickl

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 15:58:03 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: I would rather have QA have move oversight on these things. As I only discovered this while doing QA. QA isn't really the right place to make up policy. This particular case doesn't seem to be something that would merit any action by

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 4, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > Or I could also speak of the small non standard keyboard such as macbook > one where ~ or | are not printed and where using the wrong keyboard > could result in wrong characters if you are unaware of the problem. I don't know what this mean

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Dan Mashal
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > You posted this on friday afternoon, Rauhl re-opened the bug > friday night. I suspect many anaconda folks have not even seen this > discussion or the bug reopening yet. Is there some massive hurry here? No. > Lets see what anaconda developers

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 4 May 2013 15:22:01 -0700 Dan Mashal wrote: ...snip... > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Adam Williamson > wrote: > > http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/1248242/fedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords > > > > Well, that escalated quickly. > > As it should have. > > So where do we go

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Dan Mashal
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in favor of > the proposal : > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wit_2.html > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/the_pros_and_co.html Which he lat

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread inode0
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 22:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 05:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > The appropriate place to discuss deliberate design decisions is a >> > forum where said decisions are made, ie not Bu

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 22:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 05:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The appropriate place to discuss deliberate design decisions is a > > forum where said decisions are made, ie not Bugzilla. > > Or a forum where said decisions can be overridde

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 05:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > The appropriate place to discuss deliberate design decisions is a > forum where said decisions are made, ie not Bugzilla. Or a forum where said decisions can be overridden with a little more sanity, such as FESCo. -- dwmw2 smime.p7s

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 05:51 -0400, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in > favor of > the proposal : > http://www.schneier.com/blog/

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 13:20 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > That's it. So far as I can see, that's the sole reference to any actual > identifiable study. And again, so far as I can see, the entire 2009 > debate spiraled out from that single post, with lots of 'experts' adding > their subjective $0

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 21:06 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I haven't found anything much beyond the initial pretty small study > > (62 participants) cited (and conducted) by Nielsen, > > Do you have a link to this one? This

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 21:06 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I haven't found anything much beyond the initial pretty small study > > (62 participants) cited (and conducted) by Nielsen, > > Do you have a link to this one? This

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I haven't found anything much beyond the initial pretty small study > (62 participants) cited (and conducted) by Nielsen, Do you have a link to this one? This is the one I was originally looking for, but I still can't find the act

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 19:23 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Another opinion. > > It is possible to study such things, and even give caveats and error > bounds to show uncertainty. I went looking, but as T.C. Hollingsworth said, it doesn't appear that either side has produced anything much in t

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Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Another opinion. It is possible to study such things, and even give caveats and error bounds to show uncertainty. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. O

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/04/2013 02:29 AM, Stef Walter wrote: There's already this exact phoneish password hint capability in GTK+ with the 'gtk-entry-password-hint-timeout' setting. Turn it on in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, or use gtk_settings_set_string_property() I forgot about that setting. It work

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > The vast majority of other software that accepts > passwords for any reason hides the passwords as they are typed, so the > general expectation is that passwords are not displayed on the screen. More to the point, the vast majority of the othe

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 09:42:22AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 04:58 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > No, this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion - > > anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the > > people who actuall

Re: F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

2013-05-04 Thread Mike Pinkerton
On 4 May 2013, at 02:03, Chris Adams wrote: Creating a complete chain of trust is hard. Sure, creating a complete chain of trust is hard, but the closest thing we have to it today is downloading an iso and verifying its checksum -- and trusting that (a) the release team verified the keys

Re: no kernels updates in F17?

2013-05-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.05.2013 13:13, schrieb Josh Boyer: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: >> OK, also is not normal the number of updates in upstream . >> Anyway could someone give karma for a bunch of security updates ? >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-6999/kernel-3.8.1

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 04:58 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:52:25PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > And if the maintainers feel more than justified in closing it again? > > > Bugzilla isn't a discussion forum. If

3D printing packages group

2013-05-04 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hi, as part of my F19 feature https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing I would like to create a group in comps.xml. Patch for rawhide is attached, I want to add it primary to F19, but also for older versions (18, 17). Is anyone against it? Sorry for doing this after string freeze,

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 13:04 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > Hi, > > In the latest Fedora 19 Beta TC2 install after I got through the > initial steps of the install I started to setup my root password. > > To my surprise my password was shown in plain text instead of bullets. > > I believe that this i

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Andre Robatino
Richard W.M. Jones redhat.com> writes: > To be honest it would be a lot more convincing if someone had done a > study and published the results of it, rather than just linking to > opinions. I was rather hopeful that Neilsen-Norman would have done a > study, but they don't publish their results

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 05:51:02AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in favor of > > the proposal : > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wi

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:41:39PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If you want to change a decision, it helps if you're discussing it in a > > forum that's read by the people who made that decision. > > Anaconda developers don't read the devel

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:53:35PM -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2013 05:32:18 +0100 > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If you want to change a decision, it helps if you're discussing it in a > > forum that's read by the people who made that decision. > > This is a perfectly appropriate f

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 10:37:04AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > What separate a Linux distro from a random batch of software is *policy* > and what happened here is a radical policy change without any *prior* > discussion. What happened here was a change in the UI of a single (albeit important) ap

F-19 Branched report: 20130504 changes

2013-05-04 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Sat May 4 09:15:02 UTC 2013 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [byzanz] byzanz-0.3-0.5.fc17.x86_64 requires libpanel-applet-4.so.0()(64bit) [deltacloud-core] deltacloud-core-1.0.5-2.fc19.noarch requires ruby(abi) =

rawhide report: 20130504 changes

2013-05-04 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
Compose started at Sat May 4 08:15:02 UTC 2013 Broken deps for x86_64 -- [byzanz] byzanz-0.3-0.5.fc17.x86_64 requires libpanel-applet-4.so.0()(64bit) [cinnamon] cinnamon-menu-editor-1.6.7-7.fc19.noarch requires gnome-panel [d

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Björn Persson
Michael Scherer wrote: > So what about hiding on demand, and having it visible by default ? This > way, people who prefer to have it hidden will be happy, and we are still > friendly to non technical users. That might be acceptable but only if there were a big, eye-catching warning that users woul

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in favor of > the proposal : > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wit_2.html > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/the_pros_and_co.html > N

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 03 mai 2013 à 23:24 -0500, Eric Sandeen a écrit : > What is the downside to defaulting to a hidden PW, with an opt-in mechanism to > display the password as it's typed? The downsides of defaulting to cleartext > have > been noted, and to me are quite self-explanatory. First, we need

Re: HEADUPS changes in json-c library in critical path

2013-05-04 Thread Remi Collet
Le 04/05/2013 09:58, Remi Collet a écrit : > pulseaudio For example, this one is already fixed upstream. PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBJSON, [ json-c >= 0.11 ], [], [PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBJSON, [ json >= 0.9 ])]) Remi. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://a

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > This sounds pretty neat but I am unable to get this to work. I have > tried "gtk-entry-password-hint-timeout"=600 and without the quotes as well. > > Never mind. For anyone else looking, just use the format in /etc/gtk-3.0/settings

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
H On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Stef Walter wrote: > > > There's already this exact phoneish password hint capability in GTK+ > with the 'gtk-entry-password-hint-timeout' setting. Turn it on in > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, or use > gtk_settings_set_string_property() This sounds

HEADUPS changes in json-c library in critical path

2013-05-04 Thread Remi Collet
Hi, I just update json-c to version 0.11 in rawhide. As there is an old name conflict for libjson.so (with other projects), upstream have renamed the library to libjson-c.so For now, the package provides both library (libjson.so and libjson-c.so) This new version is ABI compatible with 0.10, so

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 03 mai 2013 à 21:41 -0700, Dan Mashal a écrit : > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If you want to change a decision, it helps if you're discussing it in a > > forum that's read by the people who made that decision. > > Anaconda developers don't read the devel

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday 04 May 2013 04:58:13 Matthew Garrett wrote: > No, this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion - > anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the > people who actually work on that code. What separate a Linux distro from a random batch of sof

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Stef Walter
On 04.05.2013 07:26, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 05/03/2013 03:08 PM, Reartes Guillermo wrote: >> I think that the previous behaviour was better. (covering the password >> with bullets). >> >> At least the phones only show one character at a time, not the whole >> password. > > GTK shows every

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday 03 May 2013 22:22:47 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It's not like the people entering the password don't know it is visible. I for one, will finish typing the password *way before* realizing it's visible: * Touch typing is fast * With passwords it's even faster: - Because it's very commo