Hi Brad, Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> writes:
> Package: suckless-tools > Version: 40-1 > Tags: patch > > slock uses the password in /etc/shadow for authentication, which causes > problems for setups that use some other mechanism for login (NIS > passwords, fingerprint readers, etc) and have no password set in > /etc/shadow. It also means that slock can't do stuff like unlock the > gnome-keyring login password with pam_gnome_keyring.so. I see. > > The attached patch adds PAM support to slock in Debian following the > model of dmenu's xft support or tabbed's meta support. It seems the way > to apply this would be to quilt pop -a, then apply the patch, then quilt > push -a. Both dmenu and tabbed are provided as alternative but I guess this patch is needed and we can simply provide patched slock instead of providing this as alternative. What do you think? > > There is also a different patch from 2010 to do the same thing,[1] if > for some reason you don't like this one. I've not verified patch but I've no problem in accepting your patch. OTOH if you are interested you can co-maintain suckless-tools with me :-). Let me know. > > Upstream doesn't seem to like this idea much,[2][3][4][5] so I hope > Debian will pick it up. Sure, there is many thing which its hard to convince the upstream so I silently maintain some patch in Debian, since this feels like needed feature I will be happy to pick it up. > > [1]: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1011/6405.html > [2]: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1011/6407.html > [3]: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1011/6413.html > [4]: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1011/6414.html > [5]: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1011/6416.html > Thanks for sharing I will go through this. Cheers, -- Vasudev Kamath http://copyninja.info Connect on ~friendica: [email protected] IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net | irc.freenode.net} GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
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