Re: [system-tools] Allowing password-less connexions

"Dan Nicholson" <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2008 17:52:23 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.gdm.general,gmane.comp.gnome.ximian.setup-tool
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> Le lundi 12 mai 2008 =E0 18:51 +0200, Carlos Garnacho a =E9crit :
>
> > Couldn't this be set through a group so that all users in that group
>  > wouldn't need their passwords? users-admin already has code/ui towards
>  > showing certain groups as a privilege the user can acquire, it would
>  > make sense to me having this included there, and the changes in
>  > users-admin would be really trivial too.
>  Good idea, but I don't know whether PAM provides a module that would
>  allow being member of a specific group to be "sufficient" to
>  authenticate. I'm going to search for such a module, but if somebody
>  knows about it...

See pam_succeed_if(8). I think you probably want something like:

auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup <group>

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Dan
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