KWallet PAM integration thoughts

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:33:26PM +0200, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> I recently had a talk with Oswald Buddenhagen (KDM maintainer) about how PAM 
> integration with KWallet is possible and I realised that more work is 
> necessary to resolve the issue in a clean manor. I don't want to do a hack 
> like the gnomers did for gnome-keyring (altough it works quite nice), oswald 
> had the idea of a more generic single-sign-on architecture consisting of a 
> pam-plugin and a light-weight keyring-daemon (which should interface somehow 
> with gpg's and ssl's keyring-infrastructure). The solution could then be used 
> by gnome-keyring and kwallet (or any other software). I am currently 
> investigating if there is interest at freedesktop.org to discuss the issue.

At FOSSCamp recently in Prague, Lubos Lunak and Vince Untz and others
extressed interest in having a common password manager shared between
KDE, Gnome and others (like Firefox).  You may want to ask them if
they have any plans to follow it up.

Jonathan