[Xgl/Xegl] Input Devices

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 7/27/05, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>>
>>>The login screen needs to be displayed by the same X server as the user
>>>session, or people will complain about the flickering between logging in
>>>and the session starting.
>>
>>It will only flicker if the mode changes.  Login server will stop
>>drawing, new server will start and paint over whatever was there. In
>>Xegl it is fbdev that is tracking the mode and scanout location.
> 
> 
> Another strategy would be to use setuid like Alan is doing.  I'd
> rather have them be two separate apps, that insures that there is no
> possibility of information transfer between users.
> 
> If we are using the same server...
> Classified military user logins and uses the server
> he logs out and another user logs in using the same server
> Now this user searches all of the internal buffers for classified info.
> 
> If we start a new server process this can't happen.

Oh, we still kill the running server and restart a new one every time
we get back to the login screen, so we don't use the same server for
more than one user/session.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering