On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:52, Giles Turner wrote:
> 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
libfpr can be considered as the fingerprint dirver, so it can be easily
wrapped by bioapi. What I mean is you can't use pam_bioapi until bioapi
is imported. But you can use pam_fpr, since it has the same function
with pam_bioapi. Thanks.

> 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.
-- 
Best Regards,
GaoPeng Chen
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Ext: x82005
Sun Microsystem Inc. China
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