Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mo, Okt 31, 2011 at 06:50:42 (CET), staticd wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> On So, Okt 30, 2011 at 15:11:04 (CET), staticd wrote: >> >> >> Windows NT is designed so that, unless system security is already >> >> compromised in some other way, only the Winl

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread staticd
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On So, Okt 30, 2011 at 15:11:04 (CET), staticd wrote: > > >> Windows NT is designed so that, unless system security is already > >> compromised in some other way, only the Winlogon process, a trusted > >> system process, can receive notif

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread Bear Giles
Actually SSL/SSH is a good example of how easy it is to screw up things. It's hard to believe that people have deployed systems and left the NULL cipher as an acceptable cipher but it's been done. Ditto weak random number generators that left you with AES encryption but only a relative handful of p

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On So, Okt 30, 2011 at 15:11:04 (CET), staticd wrote: >> Windows NT is designed so that, unless system security is already >> compromised in some other way, only the Winlogon process, a trusted >> system process, can receive notification of this keystroke >> combination. This is because the kernel

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread staticd
> Windows NT is designed so that, unless system security is already > compromised in some other way, only the Winlogon process, a trusted > system process, can receive notification of this keystroke > combination. This is because the kernel remembers the process ID of > the Winlogon process, and al

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread staticd
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:08 PM, John Moser wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:37 AM, John Moser > wrote: > > > #!/bin/sh > > synaptic & > > cp ~/.system/cfg `which gksudo` > > chmod u=srwx,go=rx `which gksudo` > > Sorry, that would be '/usr/bin/synaptic &' > > Of course. > I dont think gksudo

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread John Moser
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:37 AM, John Moser wrote: > #!/bin/sh > synaptic & > cp ~/.system/cfg `which gksudo` > chmod u=srwx,go=rx `which gksudo` Sorry, that would be '/usr/bin/synaptic &' Of course. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread John Moser
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM, staticd wrote: > The Secure Access key(SAK) is a key combination captured/capturable only by > the OS. > It can be used to initiate authentication interfaces where the user is sure > that the keys are being captured only by the OS. > This feature is present on wind

Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

2011-10-30 Thread staticd
The Secure Access key(SAK) is a key combination captured/capturable only by the OS. It can be used to initiate authentication interfaces where the user is sure that the keys are being captured only by the OS. This feature is present on windows(Ctrl+Alt+Del) to initiate logon. In Ubuntu, this would