On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:40, G�tz Waschk wrote:
> Am Dienstag,  4. M�rz 2003, 11:36:14 Uhr MET, schrieb Steffen Barszus:
> > I don't know if there is anything like this. But for sure it is not
> > possible to use things like xv or OpenGL on remote workstations. For this
> > you have to sit on the very same machine.
>
> Who said that? glx can use a remote display, I'm not sure about xv,
> but I guess that's similar.
>
Hmm I thought at least xv uses a similar approach as the dri and dri bypasses 
the normal Xserver for direct access to the hardware, I thought for GL it is 
the same. But I can be wrong.

> > But taken two steps lower is interesting enough. Didn't the gdm
> > provides this "fast user switching" ? Could this be triggered by a
> > card-reader and the right card. At least it seems interesting enough
> > to keep this in mind for 9.2 doesn't it ? Another idea for
> > authentification would be an usb-memory-stick.
>
> Sure, that would be a nice idea. Are those smard card readers
> supported by Linux? I see those Fujitsu Siemens boxes with card
> readers everywhere.

The easiest approach is the usb-memory-stick ;) (f.i. a second small partition 
with the key on it) But there are some card-readers that are supported under 
linux. I have done some investigation for HBCI-banking:

- towitoko-card-reader
- Reiner SCT (the USB Class 3 card-reader, can't remember the name, but reiner 
sct provides driver for it)  <== my favourite, but can't afford it currently.

There may be more supported and i can search a but in old c't-magazins (or was 
it Linux Magazin ?) since there was an article about card-readers under 
linux, which are supported and how to enable them and how to write a programm 
to use it. In the club is also a discussion about GnuCash and OpenHBCI that 
may be a bit related (homebanking).

I guess we would need an cardreader-enabled gdm or kdm for it, but i can't 
present fact currently ;)

-- 
Regards
Steffen
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