Last bits in kde-workspace

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 18 March 2014 14:26:06 Aleix Pol wrote:
> 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?

I think we need to wait for David to return...

Cheers
Martin
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