PAM with Credit Cards

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 27-Feb-2005/07:37 -0600, Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:
>
>    I'm looking into something...maybe some long-term plans. Let's say I
>handed out a bunch of magnetic cards for students to use, each with a
>name on it an/or PIN, and wanted them to walk up to a PC with a reader
>and use that card (probably authorized by LDAP somehow) to 'be' their
>login/password.
>
>    How tough would it be to write that kinda PAM module?  Has anyone
>here done it?

Have you looked at ActiveCard?

  http://www.envoydata.com/authentication/activcard_gold_linux.htm

Tony
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