Re: gnome-devel-list digest, Vol 1 #590 - 16 msgs

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Padraig O'Briain wrote:

>This sounds broken in that there seems to be an assumption that authentication 
>is equivalent to verifying that a user's pasword is correct. How would one deal 
>with a user having a smartcard and being asked to enter a PIN to authenticate 
>himself, either instead of or in addition to a password?
>

You can chain PAM plugins.  In this case we still need some kind of GUI 
representation of that, however.

As an example of something you could do would be to use the voice GDM 
plugin to recognize the user, then insert a smartcard in order to 
authenticate.

-b

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