Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] slock-1.3

From: Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:55:45 +0100

hiro wrote:
> Anyway, it would be more useful to concentrate on the password checking part,
> it segfaults commonly (which is fucking ridiculous!!) because ldap, linux,
> etc. suck.

Heyho hiro,

Same argument as for surf applies here: If you can't fix the suckyness, you have
to build a nice interface for it. If you would not abuse this segfault, I'd
recommend you debug it and send in a patch to fix it, but I have access to a
sucky LDAP setup as well, so I might be able to reproduce it myself…

> I suggest this very platform-independent alternative interface (you can remove
> special-casing for linux,bsd and such bullshit):
>
> slock < password-file

This is an interesting idea. I would not use it for mainline (users don't want
to change their password in many places), but you can push a patch to the wiki.

--Markus
Received on Mon Feb 15 2016 - 10:55:45 CET