RE: Speaker verification in gdm

[Franck Martin <Franck sopac org>]

>From the PAM manual...

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Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) is a library that
enables the local system administrator to choose how individual applications
authenticate users. For an overview of the Linux-PAM library see the
Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide. 


A Linux-PAM module is a single executable binary file that can be loaded by
the Linux-PAM interface library. This PAM library is configured locally with
a system file, /etc/pam.conf, to authenticate a user request via the locally
available authentication modules. The modules themselves will usually be
located in the directory /usr/lib/security and take the form of dynamically
loadable object files (see dlopen(3)). Alternatively, the modules can be
statically linked into the Linux-PAM library; this is mostly to allow
Linux-PAM to be used on platforms without dynamic linking available, but the
two forms can be used together. It is the Linux-PAM interface that is called
by an application and it is the responsibility of the library to locate,
load and call the appropriate functions in a Linux-PAM-module. 


Except for the immediate purpose of interacting with the user (entering a
password etc..) the module should never call the application directly. This
exception requires a "conversation mechanism" which is documented below. 
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I think the best is to get the source code of one module and hack it...

Cheers.


Franck Martin
Network and Database Development Officer
SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Fiji
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