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Re: xautolock activation behaviour



Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> a user provided a convenience patch[1] for xautolock[2] preventing
> xautolock from starting its configured executible (e.g. xlock) when the
> computer just woke up from sleep.
> 
> IMHO this would raise a security issue for people assuming xlock to be
> started after wakeup, so I propose to reject the patch. Any opposition?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> bye,
>   Roland
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241213
> [2] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xautolock

(Let him) Make it a config option that defaults to locking. Its the
users choice to compromise.

MfG
        Goswin



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