Bug 563703 – Use multiple PAM stacks (fingerprint support)

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Bug 563703 - Use multiple PAM stacks (fingerprint support)


Summary:	Use multiple PAM stacks (fingerprint support)


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	gnome-screensaver
Classification:	Deprecated
Component:	dialog
Version:	2.25.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnome-screensaver maintainers
QA Contact:	gnome-screensaver maintainers

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Reported:	2008-12-08 15:39 UTC by Rodrigo Moya
Modified:	2014-08-19 21:00 UTC

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Attachments
Patch using libfprint (9.35 KB, patch) 2008-12-08 15:41 UTC, Rodrigo Moya	none	Details \| Review

Description Rodrigo Moya 2008-12-08 15:39:42 UTC

We (Timo and myself) wrote a patch for finger print auth in gnome-screensaver using libfprint. I plan to change this patch to use the fprintd D-Bus service, but Bastien told me to include the old patch for comments

Comment 1 Rodrigo Moya 2008-12-08 15:41:14 UTC

Created attachment 124179 [details] [review]
Patch using libfprint

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2008-12-08 16:14:42 UTC

Note that as Matthias mentioned, not using PAM for authentication is a security risk (already logged in users would be able to log in even though their accounts were disabled, and all that sort of thing).

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2011-01-15 14:13:06 UTC

Renaming the bug to match how we'd like to see this implemented.

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-05-08 20:35:27 UTC

Relevant thread here:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2012-April/msg00005.html
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2012-May/msg00000.html

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2014-08-19 21:00:24 UTC

gnome-screensaver is obsolete, and this particular bug has been fixed in
gnome-shell itself, with the PAM authentication being done in gdm (which supports multi-stack).