Bug#657742: ITP: libpam-usb -- PAM module for authentication with removable USB block devices
 

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org>

* Package name : libpam-usb
Version : 0.5.0
Upstream Author : Andrea Luzzardi <scox@sig11.org>
* URL : http://sf.net/projects/pamusb/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C, Python
Description : PAM module for authentication with removable USB block devices

pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary USB
Flash Drives. It works with any application supporting PAM, such as su,
any login manager (GDM, KDM), etc.

I intend to reintroduce this in Debian since upstream woke up and made
several important improvements to the PAM module.



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Bug#657742: ITP: libpam-usb -- PAM module for authentication with removable USB block devices
 

On 28.01.2012 14:43, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : libpam-usb
> Version : 0.5.0
> Upstream Author : Andrea Luzzardi <scox@sig11.org>
> * URL : http://sf.net/projects/pamusb/
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C, Python
> Description : PAM module for authentication with removable USB block devices
>
> pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary USB
> Flash Drives. It works with any application supporting PAM, such as su,
> any login manager (GDM, KDM), etc.
>
> I intend to reintroduce this in Debian since upstream woke up and made
> several important improvements to the PAM module.

If you are talking about pam_usb 0.5.0 as hosted on sf.net, then I'd
like to point out, that it still uses hal, which has been deprecated for
quite some time.
Please don't upload new software using hal when we are in the process of
getting rid of hal altogether [1].


Cheers,
Michael

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval


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Bug#657742: ITP: libpam-usb -- PAM module for authentication with removable USB block devices
 

Hi Michael,

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> If you are talking about pam_usb 0.5.0 as hosted on sf.net, then I'd
> like to point out, that it still uses hal, which has been deprecated for
> quite some time.

Are you sure? From upstream changelog:

> * 0.5.0
> - Migrated the code base to UDisks. pam_usb doesn't depend on HAL anymore.
> - Added deny_remote option (defaults to true). If false,
> local login check will be disabled.
> - Fixed a bug in the device recognition (--add-device)

And indeed I can confirm it doesn't not need HAL anymore, at least on
my system where every trace of HAL was removed long time ago.

Thanks for reviewing this, and cheers!

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Bug#657742: ITP: libpam-usb -- PAM module for authentication with removable USB block devices
 

On 28.01.2012 17:27, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
>> If you are talking about pam_usb 0.5.0 as hosted on sf.net, then I'd
>> like to point out, that it still uses hal, which has been deprecated for
>> quite some time.
>
> Are you sure? From upstream changelog:
>
>> * 0.5.0
>> - Migrated the code base to UDisks. pam_usb doesn't depend on HAL anymore.
>> - Added deny_remote option (defaults to true). If false,
>> local login check will be disabled.
>> - Fixed a bug in the device recognition (--add-device)
>
> And indeed I can confirm it doesn't not need HAL anymore, at least on
> my system where every trace of HAL was removed long time ago.

Seems I was fooled indeed. Makefile has:

SRCS := src/conf.c
src/mem.c
src/log.c
src/xpath.c
src/hal.c

and in src/hal.c it has
pusb_hal_get_raw_property() which indeed does talk to UDisks via D-Bus,
despite it's name. I guess I should have checked the code more carefully.

Michael





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