I have tried it.It worked great.
The only thing is that even though /etc/smartpasswd has only one user
registered in it(user1) .. I can still login as other user(user2). How to
block this?
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, David Corcoran wrote:
> I'm releasing a PAM utility here in about an hour. It will have an
> administrative utility with it. I will have an RPM version for quick
> installs. So far it works with login, chfn, chsh, xlock. For xlock you
> will need to upgrade to the latest version. It currently works by getting
> the serial number off the card and writing it to a /etc/smartpasswd. The
> X utility does this for you. For a secure login though you will need to
> have the require pam_pwdb also so it give you better security by adding
> something you have with something you know. The source will be included
> also as a separate tar.gz file. It works really well. My future plans
> will have a challenge/response authentication instead of just a serial
> number but this is a start. You will need to edit your pam conf files in
> order to enable it for certain services. I recommend doing chfn first
> until you are positive it is going to work with login.
>
> Have fun,
> Dave
>
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