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GNOME 3.4 released

Posted Apr 3, 2012 7:35 UTC (Tue) by lindi (subscriber, #53135)
In reply to: GNOME 3.4 released by imgx64
Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released

Very good question. I've been searching for a solution for quite some time.

If you just want to login securely then the best solution is to bind some key to just restart your display manager. My own prototype for this is

http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/git/xsakd.git

but the idea is simple: it is just a daemon that reads /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd so there is no way to inject a fake key press programmatically. I wrote this to test how to make a variant of sudo that would not expose my password to all X clients:

http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/git/sido.git/


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