Re: [gdm-list] Two-Factors GDM login screen?

[Jörg Barfurth <Joerg Barfurth Sun COM>]

Alessandro Bottoni schrieb:
> Il 18/02/2010 10:35, Jörg Barfurth ha scritto:
>
> Many thanks for your prompt reply, Jörg.
>
> > PAM handles this by stacking multiple authentication modules. As a
> > result the authentication is serialized. This would also apply to GDM:
> > You first get prompted for one of the passwords (for the first module)
> > and then the login screen changes to ask for the second password.
>
> And, as long as I can see, there is not any way to change the label used
> to identify the password entry box, so the user must be instructed to
> enter the right passwords sequence.

The password prompt comes from the PAM module. I hope that any decent 
PAM module for dynamic OTP authentication does not ask for just 'Password'.

In some modes they actually need to display a challenge first (or as 
part of the prompt).

- Jörg

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