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

[Simo Sorce]

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 :/

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York