On Mon, January 26, 2015 00:16, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> When authentication via yubikey is triggered, the module prompts: >> >> YubiKey for `username': >> >> However, there's no visual feedback that characters are being input when >> you press the button on the yubikey, so as a user you're unsure if >> anything >> is happening (and this may take half a second or more). Especially with >> the Nano which has no physical feedback when touching it. >> >> It would be nice if the prompt would change when the first character of >> input was received. > > Hi. Is this even possible to achieve from libpam-yubico? The module > doesn't know that it is used with a terminal, it might be called from a > GNOME Screensaver, non-interactive SSH server, or whatever. The > application is responsible for these user interaction settings. > > Have you seen any other PAM module behave in a way that we could mimic? > Then we can look at the code of that and see if that is applicable to > our module.
I'm not very much into PAM internals so it didn't occur to me that this may be problematic. I decuded from the "Yubikey for" text that the module had influence over the prompt. If this is not feasible then please close this request. Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
