[plasma-login-manager] Question about current authentication method
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Following the unfortunate timing of my initial sddm proposal [Proposal] Modernize Authentication with Asynchronous D-Bus/PAM Support · Issue #2098 · sddm/sddm · GitHub Hi, I’ve been looking at the plasma-login-manager code and while Dbus was adopted for system communication, I wanted to ask about the authentication architecture. Looking at the current authentication code (Greeter.cpp, DisplayManager.cpp), I see that authentication still uses synchronous socket communication from the old SDDM ...

What does everyone think about changing the authentication system in to support modern authentication methods such as FIDO and multi-step MFA?

  • scholarOP
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    8 months ago

    Having the option to call it on all password prompts would be great, I’m happy to help with testing (you don’t want my code), I have a few different PAM modules I can try.