[Cryptography] Does anyone here know PAM?

[RB]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker
<phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> The architecture I am thinking of would be:
>
> 1) User logs in with password.
>
> 2) Password is passed to the unlock keys mechanism which uses it to unlock a
> master key.
>
> 3) Processes running under the master key account can request unlocking of
> profile data stored under it.

Perhaps I'm missing some subtle part of the point, but is this not
already done under the gnome-keyring project?  At least from this
user's perspective, gnome-keyring (and the seahorse UI) achieve the
same functionality as the OS X keyring.