PAM Authentication from GUI

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:04:18AM +0530, Utkal Ranjan wrote:
> Friends
> 
> I'm new to Linux/Qt. I'm developing an GUI application using Qt 3.0. I want PAM authentication from my GUI application. I've tested the sample program that comes with the documentation of PAM and it works fine; prompting me for the password and authenticating me.
> 
> But I want to use the GUI, a Qt from having two fields User Name & Password. When the user will click on the LOGIN button, the user should be authenticated using the PAM module.
> 
> How can I implement that ????
> Thanx a lot for your help.....

I would suggest looking at the code for kdm and kscreensaver, both of
which use PAM, whilst doing their promping graphically.

beware though that at least kdm has a history of bad practice
regarding pam, particularly ignoring return codes of various
functions, thus creating security holes.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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