ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14-03-06 12:19 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> That's a topic that has been discussed between different groups of people
>> recently, on merge requests [1] and bug reports, and it feels like we should
>> have the discussion on a common place/together, to decide what is best, and all
>> do the same thing.
>>
>> Summary of the issue:
>> - in unity8 we use the greeter as a lock screen
>> - we want to have informations from the users available on the lock screen
>> ("currently playing song" for example)
>> - we need a way to get those informations from the session to the greeter
>
> Wouldn't a better design be to have the lock screen in the user's session? That
> way each user can have their own lock screen, and it can access the user's data
> without any security issue and difficulty in transferring data between different
> security contexts...
>

I'm quite surprised that you don't consider that a security issue :)
Would you mind elaborating on the reasoning why the session is safe
enough for the lock screen?

Thomas

> Marc.
>
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