D20081: Add readme explaining how kwallet-pam works

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

apol added a comment.


  +1 for documenting and the text.
  
  Decorating with some URLs to pam documentation would be nice.

INLINE COMMENTS

> README.txt:3
> +
> +During the pam "auth" (pam_authenticate) stage the module gets the password in plaintext
> +It hashes it against a random salt previously generated by kwallet of random data and keeps it in memory

`plain<space>text`

> README.txt:9
> +
> +KWalletd recieves the pre-hashed key and then sits there doing nothing. (before the QApp constructor)
> +

QApp -> QApplication

> README.txt:13
> +
> +Kwalletd receives this, sets the env and continues into the normal bootup.
> +

kwalletd

Also what's "the env"?

REPOSITORY
  R107 KWallet PAM Integration

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D20081

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