Heeten wrote:
I think it would be better to try to make it a pam module. If you really want to try and get it into gdm and not use pam, you should probally talk to George Lebl <jirka 5z com> first. Heeten
I propose rather that it be BOTH. A plugin for PAM to do the authentication and a plugin for GDM that would do the gui representation of it. I haven't looked at GDM code, but it may take some work to make it modular in this way. We discussed this briefly back in May. This is a quote of my proposal at that time:
-----------start quoteThe subject came up a while ago of adding voice authentication to GDM. It was decided that GDM needed to be patched.
I have a different suggestion. Keep in mind that I have not looked at the GDM code, so I have no way of knowing whether my proposal will be straightforward or a total rewrite.
I propose that we make GDM modular, in a sense, it can be the graphical equivilant of PAM. We shouldn't * replace* PAM, that should still do the core authentication. This is only for the graphical representation of the user/pass challenges or their equivilants (voice ID, retina print, thumbprint, DNA sample, etc).
What do you guys think of this? I don't think it's been done for Linux yet, and that is one thing that keeps Linux off corporate desktops. My CEO would use a Linux desktop if his thumb scanner would work on it.
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