Brian Cameron writes: > Using this approach, when a user puts their finger on the fingerprint reader, > a daemon could tell GDM to restart using the fingerprint PAM stack. This > sort of approach could also work and wouldn't require extending PAM at > all.
One of the key questions underlying all of this has been the question of *which* GDM, if there are multiple, should get the event from *which* reader. If you bind together the biometric reader with the existing keyboard/mouse/ display group, then it's easy to see how this works. If the fingerprint reader is dangling in space, it's less obvious how it works. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
