Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: pam_unix.so Add use_first_pass option.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      >
>      > On its own it does nothing.  It makes more sense in context with the other patch I sent.
>      > With this option in place, one can extend the unix-pam-service with another pam service
>      > (such as krb5-pam), and if the krb5 authentication fails (for example because I am not
>      > at work) then the password I gave will be presented to the regular pam_unix login. 
>      > I won't be prompted for it again.
>      
>      In that case, instead of hardcoding ???use_first_pass??? here, would it be
>      possible for the pam-krb5 service to extend ???pam-root-service-type??? with
>      a procedure that automatically adds ???use_first_pass??? where needed?
>      
>
> I will look into it.  But almost any other pam module will want to do
> the same

Yes, and what I suggest will allow you to do that.

> - at least
> any other which uses passphrase based authentication.  So I thought why put the onus on 
> every other module to do this?

It’s not entirely clear that ‘use_first_pass’ is generally desirable,
Kerberos aside.  So I think it makes more sense to add it as part of the
Kerberos service, with an explanation of why it’s important in this
context.

Ludo’.