"Thijs Kinkhorst" <th...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, January 26, 2015 00:16, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> When authentication via yubikey is triggered, the module prompts: >>> >>> YubiKey for `username': >>> >>> However, there's no visual feedback that characters are being input when >>> you press the button on the yubikey, so as a user you're unsure if >>> anything >>> is happening (and this may take half a second or more). Especially with >>> the Nano which has no physical feedback when touching it. >>> >>> It would be nice if the prompt would change when the first character of >>> input was received. >> >> Hi. Is this even possible to achieve from libpam-yubico? The module >> doesn't know that it is used with a terminal, it might be called from a >> GNOME Screensaver, non-interactive SSH server, or whatever. The >> application is responsible for these user interaction settings. >> >> Have you seen any other PAM module behave in a way that we could mimic? >> Then we can look at the code of that and see if that is applicable to >> our module. > > I'm not very much into PAM internals so it didn't occur to me that this > may be problematic. I decuded from the "Yubikey for" text that the module > had influence over the prompt. If this is not feasible then please close > this request.
We control the text, but not the particular prompting (that's done by the application that is using the PAM framework, which can be GUI or text or a network server etc) -- however it may be possible to do something better here, I don't know. I see no problem keeping this open until someone has time to dig into the details and tell us something conclusive. /Simon
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