Re: Speaker verification prototype ready

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Heeten wrote:

> I think it would be better to try to make it a pam
> module.  If you really want to try and get it into gdm
> and not use pam, you should probally talk to George
> Lebl <jirka 5z com> first.
>
> Heeten

I propose rather that it be BOTH.  A plugin for PAM to do the 
authentication and a plugin for GDM that would do the gui representation 
of it.  I haven't looked at GDM code, but it may take some work to make 
it modular in this way.  We discussed this briefly back in May.  This is 
a quote of my proposal at that time:

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The subject came up a while ago of adding voice authentication to GDM. 
It was decided that GDM needed to be patched.

I have a different suggestion.  Keep in mind that I have not looked at 
the GDM code, so I have no way of knowing whether my proposal will be 
straightforward or a total rewrite.

I propose that we make GDM modular, in a sense, it can be the graphical 
equivilant of PAM.  We shouldn't * replace* PAM, that should still do 
the core authentication.  This is only for the graphical representation 
of the user/pass challenges or their equivilants (voice ID, retina 
print, thumbprint, DNA sample, etc).

What do you guys think of this?  I don't think it's been done for Linux 
yet, and that is one thing that keeps Linux off corporate desktops.  My 
CEO would use a Linux desktop if his thumb scanner would work on it.
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-b


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