Comment 3 for bug 1318864

I posted it on their forums but there wasnt much reply... If you know how
yo reach the devs directly please do
On May 21, 2014 8:31 AM, "Sebastian Lackner" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I assume that the installation of plugins as a regular user works well, is
> this right?
>
> As Erich has already mentioned, even more critical than that the
> installation fails with Pipelight, is the fact, that plugins are loaded
> during the login screen. This could be used by a plugin to record for
> example the entered password or to run a shell without having the user to
> enter a password.
>
> Did you already contact the Linux Mint team about this issue? If not we can
> also do this for you.
>
>
> 2014-05-13 16:09 GMT+02:00 Erich E. Hoover <email address hidden>:
>
> > I assume that you notice this because of the dialog that pops up
> > informing you that the plugin is installing. That means that the login
> > screen loads all the configured plugins. I would suggest that this is a
> > serious security issue and that you should immediately contact the
> > project that develops the login screen for Mint. This would likely
> > allow a malicious plugin to see what you are doing at login.
> >
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> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1318864
> >
> > Title:
> > Tries to install the plugins at login screen LMDE
> >
> > Status in Pipelight:
> > New
> >
> > Bug description:
> > For some reason at every boot it tries to install all the plugins at
> > the login screen on Linux Mint Debian Edition. I'm using the latest
> > version of Mint, and latest pipelight and wine compholio from Debian
> > wheezy repository
> >
> >
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Debian_7.0/
> > ./
> >
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> Title:
> Tries to install the plugins at login screen LMDE
>
> Status in Pipelight:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> For some reason at every boot it tries to install all the plugins at
> the login screen on Linux Mint Debian Edition. I'm using the latest
> version of Mint, and latest pipelight and wine compholio from Debian
> wheezy repository
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Debian_7.0/
> ./
>
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