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

[Fred Wittekind]

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?
> Simo.
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