Re: gsu (Was Re: More Political Stuff)

[Geoff Reedy <vader21 imsa edu>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:49:32PM +0800, James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au> said
> 
> I think that previously decided that this problem wasn't worth worrying
> about.  Since if you can sneak in a rouge theme like this, you could
> probably connect to the person's X server anyway, and sniff arbitrary
> events.  Making a special case for the gsu gui would not really help at
> all.
> 

Oh yeah, the password prompter should definitely grab the keyboard while
getting the password, just like the secure keyboard option in gnome-terminal.
That way another application can't snarf the password.  

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Geoffrey Reedy                                       vader21@imsa.edu

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