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Authorization Dialog

Designs for system-level authorization dialogs. Some of the particulars here are generally relevant to password entry and authentication design patterns.

Goals & Requirements

Non-Goals

Relevant Art

Windows 10

Mac

GNOME 3.32

GNOME 2

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Discussion

Which actions require authorization my depend on the context. For example, installing new software may not be allowed automatically within a supervised or managed account.

Efforts should be made to make the information request difficult to spoof. Perhaps it could even verify information that is passed to it from an application.

It might be interesting to only present the system modal when the requesting app is already focused and otherwise show a notification that says app requires authorization and if I click on that then present a modal.

Tentative Design

Old designs:

Comments

See Also


2024-10-23 11:03