Automating pam_keyring...

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 21:45:12 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 21:31 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Denis Leroy <denis <at> poolshark.org> writes:
> > Installing pam_keyring isn't enough though, it still requires manual 
> > edition of /etc/pam.d/gdm to make it work. I was hoping to start some 
> > discussions on what needs to happen to make its behavior enabled 
> > automatically upon installation, especially since this is on the F-8 
> > wish list. Should it use a scriptlet that modifies /etc/pam.d/gdm in 
> > %post (see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232857 ). 
> > Or add a patch to the gdm package and make it require pam_keyring ? Or 
> > do we want to make this feature optional from authconfig ?
> 
> What about /etc/pam.d/kdm and /etc/pam.d/kdm-np? Not every gnome-keyring-using 
> application necessarily always runs inside a GDM session. ;-)

wow proposed mixed desktop relations.  How risque.

Probably if we write this into authconfig we should think how this
should work.  Maybe an advanced option.  I have definitely had e-mails
from very upset kde people that were very upset that pam_keyring was
starting up gnome_keyring_daemon in their session.  Just something to
keep in mind.

Jon




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