[[!meta title="tails-greeter"]] tails-greeter is shipped in Tails 0.11 and later. Remaining action items and bugs are split into individual pages in [[!tails_todo "" desc="todo"]] and [[!tails_bug "" desc="bugs"]]. Archive ======= This started as an implementation of custom [[todo/boot_menu]] for GDM3 as part of GSoC2011 project. This page is the entry point to [[design description|TailsGreeter/design]] and relevant [[useful information|TailsGreeter/refs]]. The [[project status updates|TailsGreeter/blog]] and [[timeline|TailsGreeter/timeline]] pages were actively used during GSoC. [[!toc levels=2]] How it should look like ----------------------- 0. After GDM is started user is presented with language-chooser-widget and "Enable persistence?" checkbox. If the user enables persistence, they are asked their encryption passphrase(s). 0. Choosing language and layout is immediately applied: if corresponding .po file is available then TailsGreeter is immediately translated. 0. One can choose to either login directly, or to go to an options screen. 0. In the options screen: - admin-password-widget: typing password and confirming makes the user sudoer with the chosen password; if no password is entered, the user is not given any admin rights. 0. After logon, desktop must be shown with proper locale and layout. Requested options details ------------------------- Developers are encouraged to provide input for various options to be asked via boot-menu. ### Language 1. name: Language 2. default value: English 3. effects: - setup locale for the TailsGreeter so that the user can understand the other choices; - generate the chosen locale; - setup locale for the session to be started; - maybe more: have a look at `config/binary_local-hooks/20-syslinux_i18n` in Tails main Git repository to see what parameters it passes to live-config (locales, keyboard-layouts) then grep the relevant variable names (`KEYBOARD_LAYOUT`, `LIVE_LOCALES`, `LIVE_TIMEZONE`) in live-config source to see what is currently done depending on the chosen language, and might thus need to be triggered by tails-greeter as well; while appealing, installing `locales-all` is not an option: it avoids the need to compile locales at runtime, but it increases the ISO size by 130MB+, which seems overkill since compiling one given locale takes roughly 3s on a quite old laptop. * locale generation: done with localedef (see [[design|TailsGreeter/design]] for details of the interface) * keyboard: layout is applied with the help of corresponding GDM d-bus signals. * console keyboard: live-config `015-keyboard-configuration`, `117-xserver-xorg` and `014-console-setup` scripts might be usable; need some envvars set. * Note: live-config scripts we'll run ourselves must not run on boot before we run them: these scripts are *not* idempotent 4. ui hint: Choose the language of your Tails session. 5. responsible dev: 6. dev's notes: This item should be really visible, probably on top of the TailsGreeter screen. More information can be found in [[todo/localization_at_runtime]]. ### Administrator password 1. name: Administrator password 2. default value: none 3. effects: execute `set-user-password-and-locale` with `$TAILS_USER_PASSWORD` saved into temporary file. See [[design|TailsGreeter/design]] for details. 4. ui hint: (draft) enter here a password that will be asked to grant administrator rights. Leave this field blank to disable administrator rights. 5. responsible dev: 6. Related TODO item: [[todo/better_root_access_control]]

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