Gaopeng Chen - Sun China wrote:
>>> 2) Is it necessary to import virtual Biometric Device in X level(or even
>>> in console level)? [No]
>>>
>>> It's too ideal to regards biometric devices as the keyboard/mouse. If
>>> biometric devices is virtualized, we not only update the X
>>> applications(such as gdm, dtlogin, etc), but also updates the console
>>> applications(such as login, su, etc). I didn't ask for X team, but I
>>> don't think we have so many resources to update all PAM authentication
>>> services. Further more, a problem may be difficult to be resolved for
>> I suggest asking. You may be right, and the answer may be "never" as
>> you indicate, but I don't think that guessing at another team's
>> resources or priorities is a good way to proceed.
> I've mailed Alan.Coopersmith for this, just please wait for the
> response.
I'm not sure I actually understand what here you want me to respond to.
The X team only owns three of the PAM clients - xlock, xdm, and
xscreensaver - of which xscreensaver is the only interesting one to
most people. We have no plans to make any of the three multithreaded
or support PAM_CONV_INTERRUPT though. xscreensaver's PAM code is far
too complex and brittle already for me to want to even think about
multi-threading it.
If there's a more involved question hiding in here you want me to
answer, can you please state it simply?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
