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[Paul Wolneykien <question678005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #678005 on LightDM GTK+ Greeter:
https://answers.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+question/678005

Hi, LigthDM-Gtk-Greeter developers! I want to announce the prompt-driven authentication patch. By the term "prompt-driven" I mean two-way conversation between the greeter dialog and the PAM stack. As you probably know, PAM works by conversation with a dialog program asking the user to enter something in answer to each message it sends. In the most conventional case, the only question is "Password:" and the password is the only data the user enters. But in general, the number of questions and messages are not limited to that.

The previous (i.e. current) version of LigthDM-Gtk-Greeter was written and works for the mentioned "only password" authentication scheme. For other schemes it's not enough. The implementation I'm announcing here fixes that limitation.

https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/sisyphus/srpms/lightdm-gtk-greeter/patches/lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.1-advanced.patch/download

The presented  patch, however, is a combination of two patches. It introduces one another feature: a button to start the "chauthtok" PAM session — i.e. the session to change the user password.

Both features are based on the related changes in LightDM itself: https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/sisyphus/srpms/lightdm/patches/lightdm-1.16.7-alt24-advanced.patch/download .

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