Peres: Wayland Compositors - Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients!
Peres: Wayland Compositors - Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients!
Posted Feb 21, 2014 9:52 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)In reply to: Peres: Wayland Compositors - Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients! by uoppy
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What you're proposing is very similar to what web pages use today. And it doesn't work, the users are too easily fooled.
An alternative that could possibly work is to use an intermediary application that could authenticate the application requesting the password, and teach the users to _always_ use that intermediary application.