Re: [gdm-list] GDM and smart card logon

[Martin Paljak <martin paljak pri ee>]

Have a look at www.opensc.org. Basically you can work nicely with some pam
modules we have. There are some things that could be improved in a
commercial environment but you're welcome to post patches for that stuff ;)


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:54:35AM +0000, Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> My company provides cross-platform smart card solutions.
> 
> Logical access is one of the areas I target, but I currently only support the 
> GINA technology (Windows) and am very interested in offering smart card logon 
> for GNU/Linux.
> 
> I have two questions.
> 
> 1) "Administrative" :I assume gdm is GPL: can I package it in a commercial 
> bundle which would have the actual GPL gdm source and my code as binary ?
> 
> 2) "Technical": (I have not looked at the code yet): is there any obvious 
> technical pitfall I should be aware of: I gather my implementation would 
> involve a daemon that would poll on smart card event (insertion/removal) and 
> send these events to the modified gdm that would in turn 
> 2.a) request a user PIN and pass it to the card
> 2.b) retrieve logon information from the card (user, password, domain)
> 2.c) pass the information to the OS
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> 
> Philippe
> 
> 
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m.
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