Re: keyring manager

[Jon Escombe <lists dresco co uk>]

Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:50 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:16 +0000, Jon Escombe wrote:
> > > If you just want to avoid entering the password after logon, you could also look at pam_keyring which will silently give it the logon password..
> > Which doesn't work if you are using a non-password based login technique
> > (key, fingerprint, etc).
>
> Is this still the case?  I know back in August the guys from pam_bioapi
> were working on embedding an encrypted password in the biometric
> signature file.  This would enable the biometric scanner to then
> unencrypt it and pass that along in the pam stack as PAM_AUTHTOK for the
> other services that needed it.

It's still the case when using pam_thinkfinger at least... Perhaps I'm 
just missing a better way to configure it all?

Regards,
Jon.