[Freeipa-users] Locked Screen saver & Renew Ticket window.

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:12 -0400, Fred Wittekind wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 19:46 -0400, Fred Wittekind wrote:
> >   
> >> If you've been away from a long time, and the screen is both locked, and 
> >> the ticket has expired triggering a renew ticket window, you have to 
> >> your password twice in close succession, both validated by the IPA 
> >> directly or indirectly.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if this should be altered, so that when the screen saver 
> >> password window sends a auth request to validate the password entered to 
> >> unlock the screen, if the ticket also needs renewed it should do so, and 
> >> make the renew ticket window go away.
> >>     
> >
> > Yes the screen-saver should trigger correct renewal of credentials.
> > Are you sure that does not happen ? I think the renew window does not go
> > away even if the screen-saver does it right now as I think it does not
> > do any polling to monitor if the situation is changed once it display
> > the prompt :/
> >   
> I'm not actually sure that the screen saver doesn't renew the 
> credentials.  I'll check next time it happens.  Could / should the renew 
> window be modified to poll?

Yeah it would be nice if it were smarter indeed.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York