On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:50 +0200, Martin Paljak wrote: > On 21.12.2006, at 15:04, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > > > You are right Martin. But PAM was not designed with smart cards in > > mind. > > IMHO the main selling feature of PAM has been 'whenever you want to > upgrade to serious authentication like smartcards or biometrics, > you'll need PAM and you'll learn that PAM is the proper method'. > > It might be a false perception as well. > Hrm.. I have just recently been following this, but PAM doesn't require any sort of password/etc. Apps using PAM are supposed to register functions for 'conversation' for retrieving information from the user. So for the case of PIN reader, you just don't have your PAM plugin ask for the PIN. However... many app writers assume that a password is needed and hard-wire that into the UI. -- Thomas Harning Jr. Authentication Engineer @ Identity Alliance http://www.trustbearer.com/
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