<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Martin Gräßlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgraesslin@kde.org" target="_blank">mgraesslin@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Tuesday 18 March 2014 11:31:04 Marco Martin wrote:<br>
> On Monday 17 March 2014, Aleix Pol wrote:<br>
> > Hi plasma,<br>
> > Do you know if kde-workspace/libs/kdm and kcheckpass can actually be<br>
> > dropped?<br>
> > It's being used by the screen locker at the moment and I'm feeling unsure.<br>
><br>
> uhm, wasn't libs/kdm already dropped?<br>
> anyways, any idea how to do the password check in the lockscreen without it?<br>
> will it use something coming from lightdm?<br>
<br>
</div>kcheckpass is a binary that just checks the password. It was intended to be<br>
extremely small to make it possible to use suid. This is no longer needed, one<br>
doesn't need to be suid to check the password. Thus the usecase for kcheckpass<br>
is no longer needed.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So what should we change kcheckpass for?</div><div class="gmail_extra">Regarding libs/kdm, the screenlocker uses kgreeterplugin.h. It seems like only one alternative for a screen locker, I can easily remove it but I'd prefer to know what I'm doing.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Aleix</div></div>