On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:24, Giles Turner wrote:
> What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is 
imported?

I have to say "no" before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter
since the security services (such as login, xscreensaver, etc) work upon
the PAM APIs. pam_fpr or pam_bioapi is just a pluggable module in the
PAM stack. Thanks.

"No" as in libfpr will not support bioapi until it is imported if
ever? It does matter. If libfpr does not support bioapi, then I cannot
use pam_bioapi with libfpr supported devices but I suppose I will be
told get a bioapi driver from vendor.


> > After bioapi is imported in the future. the current diagram will be
> > changed from,
> >
> >         PAM
> >          |
> >        pam_fpr
> >          |
> >        libfpr
> >
> > to,
> >
> >         PAM
> >          |
> >        pam_bio
> >          |
> >        bioapi
> >          |
> > ----------------------------------
> >   |        |       |        |
> > libfpr   libiris  libvoice  ...
> >
> >
> > So that libfpr still keeps the driver level, we don't need to do much
> > overlapped work. Thanks.
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