[Cryptography] Does anyone here know PAM?

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:01 PM, RB <aoz.syn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

​Well until yesterday, Ubuntu wasn't using Gnome. Now they are abandoning
Unity and moving to Gnome and so the desktop is more or less going to be
unified again.

Thanks all, this should be enough for demo purposes.​
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