[PATCH weston] introduces a setting to give permission to any client to do screenshots

Sebastian Wick sebastian at sebastianwick.net
Sat Dec 14 16:09:10 PST 2013


Am 2013-12-13 16:12, schrieb Martin Peres:
> What prevents other applications from modifying this setting to true
> if they want to
> spy on applications?

Nothing. But then again if you can write to the ini file you can make
the compositor load any code with the shell setting.

I don't even think my patch is the right way to handle it anymore.
There must be a way to trust a client even when it's not started by
the compositor.


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