Dne st 22. února 2012 Calvin Morrison napsal(a):
> On 22 February 2012 14:52, Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> 
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 February 2012 02:24:25 pm Slávek Banko wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >> So I have to confirm the observations from Jiri Jansky - kdm_greet
> >> is still sick. And SAK from now I consider not only the futility but
> >> complete stupidity. :)
> >
> > For home users, it is complete stupidity IMO. How many people have
> > friends or relatives who are going to hack the login screen, anyway?
> >
> > For businesses, schools, etc. that will have a lot of people logging
> > in, I can certainly understand having it enabled, provided it works
> > right. Even then, if the business/school/etc. sets up their
> > read/write permissions correctly and are as careful as possible who
> > they provide root access to, they shouldn't have to worry. Besides,
> > if they give root access to someone who's untrustworthy, that would
> > invalidate any reason for having SAK enabled.
>
> I missed the part where you were actually talking about what SAK
> implements.
>
> maybe you should read up on it:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key
>
> Calvin Morrison

Well, SAK I always seemed as pointless. At home, at school, at work, I 
never saw usefulness. However, there is no need to discuss the usefulness 
of the SAK, but that kdm seems to be ill. And #690, therefore, seems 
unresolved.

Slavek
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