I am trying to do a trivial thing like developing an authentication module > which needs some extra info from the user via GUI interface. > e.g. to "su" my authentication module pops up a dialog asking for the user's > password. the typed value is analyzed and if all is ok my module return > PAM_SUCCESS. > This is actualy working for any application that is activated when the GUI > manager is already in action i.e after GUI login took place.(I guess this is > exactly how every one switch to root permissions on some GUI applications) > Would it be possiable to run this in xdm authentication application (and for > that metter any GUI login Apllication or Screen lock appliaction ?) Is there a way to tweak the xdm so it addes another data field to fill by the user which I can grab in my authentication module and do something with ? > > Or is the only way to get the extra data for my module by recompiling the > GUI Login application for my needs ? > I am using Suse 7.1 with 2.2.18 kernal and QT2 for the dialog code. > This seems a trival need for PAM modules but some how I can not find any > example that uses GUI ontop of the xdm,kdm,xlock,xsceansaver etc.. GUI > authentication Applications. > > If you have any ideas,sources, advise I would appricate it. > Yours, Gilad Finkelstein
