Hi everybody, after using slock for quite some time and being generally very pleased with it, I wanted to use it in more situations, especially ones using PAM. I checked out the patches on the wiki and found them ... incomplete. Depending on what PAM is authentication against, like a fingerprint reader, it might be necessary to display some prompts and feedback generated by PAM. A possible dialog:
""" Place your finger on the fingerprint reader Place your finger on the reader again Place your finger on the reader again Verification timed out Password: """ So I started playing with the code. The short story is that I ended up abstracting things a little differently to make it possible to compile the authenticating code independently of slock.c and link it in. The authenticating code goes into files of the form auth-*.c, of which I have included two: * auth-passwd.c * auth-pam.c The interface is defined in a new header file, slock.h. I have put a great deal of effort into keeping the code simple and concise, as was the original. True to the suckless philosophy, what little configuration is provided, is done in config.h. Nonetheless, the code that came out the other end of my journey is significantly different from the starting code. It cannot usefully be expressed as a patch for the purposes of discussion. I am offering this code back to suckless to incorporate as desired and to get feedback. If the general idea is something that is of interest to the project, I am quite willing to adjust the code based on feedback to fit better. To share the code with you all, I ran `make dist` and uploaded the resultant tarball to https://sbronner.com/~waschtl/slock-1.5-waschtl-modular.tar.gz I look forward to all of your reactions. Sincerely, Sebastian
