Re: [dev] Request to publish PamUUID in other projects

2020-05-03 Thread lmsru...@gmail.com
Thanks. I looked into libblkid and it seems simple enough. I can include it as a new authentication method. Still the systemd dependency might not be as bad as I thought initially. It turns out that the devices in by-uuid are created by udev. It is a fact that udev is part of systemd, but there

Re: [dev] Request to publish PamUUID in other projects

2020-04-29 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 08:02:59PM +0100, lmsru...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have just developed a PAM module that can be used to log into linux > by using a usb drive. The software was designed according to the > suckless philosophy of simplicity, clarity and frugality. However it > does depe

Re: [dev] Request to publish PamUUID in other projects

2020-04-29 Thread Tait Hoyem
Instead of looking for a specific file via the file system which would "depend" on systemd in as much as systemd provides the /dev/by-uuid/ directory (AFAIR anyway), maybe look into the blkid.h file included in linux-utils. libblkid(3), blkid(8) are some good man pages to start out with. I haven'