On Monday 07 November 2005 12:53 pm, Martin Paljak wrote: > Hello > > On 07.11.2005, at 14:37, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > > Will it be like on Windows: gdm asks for the PIN as soon as you insert > > a smart card in a reader (without asking for the login first)? > > > > I did not know that gdm, kdm, ... had a support for plug ins. > > I worked on the problem a few years ago and falled back to a custom > daemon system that launched gdm for a single system. That worked but > is nothing close to an elegant solution. > > From the GDM list i heard that PAM should be capable for doing such > operations like reacting on card insertion and reagin the username > itself, but that's something that shoudl be possible by design but > none of the examples i worked with provided such examples. > The answer I got (understood) from the PAM people was that their architecture assumed a certificate (which I do not have) and required modification to adjust to symetric algo cards.
The GUI also is an issue as they talk to the XLIB, which is not easy to handle. Another reason why I feel using Python (for a working prototype at least) would be a smart move: if Tkinter is not very pretty, it is easy to manage and is built-in. > m. Regards, Philippe -- ************************************* Philippe C. Martin SnakeCard, LLC www.snakecard.com ************************************* _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
