fre, 03.06.2005 kl. 16.23 skrev ness: > Nils Philippsen wrote: > > >On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 14:19 +0200, ness wrote: > > > > > >>I'm not actually using fredora, but I want to be active at the 'google > >>summer of code'. I've got a strange idea for a project, and I think a > >>distribution is the best organization to call. My project has not > >>directly sth. to do with fredora, it's more 'distribution independ'. > >>Would fredora like to be to mentoring organization for such a project? > >>If so, I'd be happy to tell you more about my project. > >> > >> > > > >Chicken and egg problem here, people probably can't answer unless they > >know more about your proposal. > > > >Nils > > > > > OK, if I understand you right, I shall tell more about my project. My > first question was wether fredora would mentor a project not directly > connected to the fredora distribution. But more about my proposal: > The idea is an udev based authentication using an usb-stick. This means > following: I put the stick into the pc, then, if a loginmanger is > started, it will automaticly open a graphical session. If not, a shell > based session will start. I think I could add interesting expands to > that, such as automaticly open encrypted devices... I'd realize this > (means: writing patches for common dm, write the udev rule and so on) > and write config tools. If you want, I sent you a complete spec of what > I'd be going to do. Interesting :) Could the users homedir lie encrypted on such a device (say, a standard usb memory stick), and when presented with such a stick, the machine would ask for the users password (witch would also be the encryption key, and log the user in? Could be really usefull for simple setups with many users - say a school, or a village in India. With this setup, they could hand out such sticks to student, witch they could plug into any computer to login, or take home to retrive his/her data. Some linux/windows/mac-based "client" must then be aviable to decrypt data.) What about some kind of personal authentification using a gpg-key on the stick? Problem is that if you have the stick, you should not be able to retrive the key... But if the stick works as a decryption device (the computer sends data to stick, stick decrypts using on-board CPU, sticks sends unencrypted data to computer) - but that would require some HW hacking. Kyrre -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
