Le Wednesday 29 September 2004 � 12:23:53, Josep Mon�s Teixidor a �crit:
> Hi list,

Hello,

> The worst problem is: is there any kind of gui that asks the user to 
> insert the smartcard and let's him enter a PIN? How does people do this? 
> Ideally I think this should be inside the desktop manager (gdm, kdm, 
> xdm, whatever...)

This is exactly what PAM is designed for. The PAM module can ask the
PAMed program (gdm, login, ssh, etc.) to display a specific message like
"Enter your PIN" (instead of "password:") using conversation functions.

Look for conv->conv() function call in Mario Strasser's PKCS#11 pam.

Regards,

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