Re: PAM with Credit Cards

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Am So, den 27.02.2005 schrieb Brian Fahrlander um 14:37:

>     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 a look at the M.U.S.C.L.E. project at

http://www.linuxnet.com/

Besides drivers and other software there is an existing PAM module
project linked

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mariost/pkcs11_login/

From my experience, first find out which chip cards are already
supported by an implementation. Chip cards are very different and one
software does not fit for all but a limited model.

Alexander


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