Re: Speaker verification prototype ready

[Jean-Marc Valin <valj01 gel usherb ca>]

> >I'm looking into PAM right now and there's something I'm not sure. It looks like
> >you can ask PAM to authenticate a certain user X. However, what I'd like to do
> >is to ask: is it X, Y or Z trying to login? In other words, the user should just
> >say something (not typing its username or anything) and the system shoud
> >identify him and log him in. Is that possible with PAM?
> 
> As I understand it, no.  But it would be possible in the split plugin
> method I proposed in my previous mail.

The whole point of PAM is that you can change authentication without changing
the client. But if you need to modify the client anyway, then what's the point
of writing a PAM module *also*? So in this case it would be better to just
modify gdm.

	Jean-Marc