Last bits in kde-workspace

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 March 2014 11:31:04 Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Monday 17 March 2014, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > Hi plasma,
> > > Do you know if kde-workspace/libs/kdm and kcheckpass can actually be
> > > dropped?
> > > It's being used by the screen locker at the moment and I'm feeling
> unsure.
> >
> > uhm, wasn't libs/kdm already dropped?
> > anyways, any idea how to do the password check in the lockscreen without
> it?
> > will it use something coming from lightdm?
>
> kcheckpass is a binary that just checks the password. It was intended to be
> extremely small to make it possible to use suid. This is no longer needed,
> one
> doesn't need to be suid to check the password. Thus the usecase for
> kcheckpass
> is no longer needed.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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So what should we change kcheckpass for?
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.

Aleix
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