Re: [gdm-list] gnome-screensaver authenticates users through GDM



于 2010-1-16 11:34, Jeff Cai 写道:

Please don't require a mouse-movement or other user interaction to initiate the authentication for unlock.
Why not do it immediately?

Requiring user interaction makes it impossible to automate unlocking a session via the PAM stack, which can be very useful at times if there is some method of authentication occurring outside of the session itself (e.g. Sun Ray Non-SmartCard Mobility).

IMO a screen saver should call pam_authenticate immediately when the screen is locked, to allow for such mechanisms. What would be the purpose in waiting?
I think not pam_authenticate, it should be pam_start that is called immediately. pam_authenticate needs the user gives the password.
Bob, you are right. It should be pam_authenticate after I read Alan's mail.

Jeff


Jeff


-Bob

This approach has many advantages. It means that only GDM needs
to know about how to present the authentication dialog and handle
PAM interactions. Having a single program handle the GUI is nice
since this means that there is only a single dialog that needs to
be made to work with a11y. Since GDM has good a11y support, it
would be nice to leverage that.

Another advantage is that on the console, this could be written so
the authentication dialog screen is presented on a separate VT and
runs as the "gdm" user, providing better TrustedPath security. This,
for example, ensures that the authentication dialog is not using
the same Xauth cookie as the user's session, avoiding any possible
interference or snooping from a userland program.

2) gnome-screensaver just calls gdm-session-worker D-Bus interfaces
to do the actual PAM interactions. You really do not want any
program to be able to access these interfaces, so it would need
to be implemented in such a way that only "approved" programs
like gnome-screensaver could call these interfaces. This approach
has the advantage of consolidating the PAM code in one place, but
means that gnome-screensaver still needs to manage all GUI related
things such as a11y. Also, this solution would not improve the
TrustedPath situation at all.

I imagine that new D-Bus interfaces would need to be added to
gdm-session-worker to make this work, but I'd think it should be
possible. And it could be a step towards implementing solution #1
in the long-term.

I've heard that Jon McCann had ever planned to integrate the functions
of gnome-screensaver into GDM. But it may need a long time. So before
that, as the first step, GDM can provide PAM authentication
interfaces that allow others use them.

At the GUADEC in Istanbul, Jon suggested that solution #1 above was
something that he was thinking about implementing, though I think
Jon is more focused on gnome-shell these days.

Brian
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