Brian Cameron wrote:
> Using this approach, when a user puts their finger on the fingerprint
> reader,
> a daemon could tell GDM to restart using the fingerprint PAM stack.  This
> sort of approach could also work and wouldn't require extending PAM at
> all.

How would it know that GDM is the right client doing PAM authentication
at that moment, and not a screen lock or admin gui or other PAM client?

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        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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