pam-kwallet review/testing

Rex Dieter rdieter at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 30 00:19:06 UTC 2014


On 04/29/2014 07:13 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> pam-kwallet brings to kde what gnome-keyring-pam is for gnome.
>
> 2 Questions:
>
> 1. I am using gdm, not kdm, so where would I put those pam -auth and -
> session configurations? You mentioned that you put yours in /etc/pam.d/kdm.
> Would I add them to a gdm file (if there is one)?

I'm guessing gdm uses /etc/pam.d/gdm-password, though rule of thumb is 
to put pam_kwallet.so entries wherever you see pam_gnome_keyring.so

> 2. I am really confused by all of this password stuff. There is also an
> application called ksshaskpass. I have that installed and I added a script,
> exactly as shown in the directions, to ~/.kde/Autostart. Does pam-kwallet
> make ksshaskpass redundant? Must I/Can I/Should I leave the script in
> Autostart intact?

ksshaskpass unrelated to pam or kwallet, as far as I know. So, to answer 
your questions specifically:  no, yes, respectively.

-- Rex



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