[LightDM] LightDM Customized Greeter for Voice-based Authentication

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at gmail.com
Sun May 17 22:00:58 PDT 2015


(forwarded to the LightDM mailing list which is the appropriate place to
ask questions).

The PAM configurations used by LightDM are /etc/pam.d/lightdm*. You can
also set the pam-* optiions in lightdm.conf. See
/usr/share/doc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.gz for all the options.

On Wed, 6 May 2015 at 03:33 Subhomoy Dey <subhomoydey90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sir,
>
> I've made a voice based authentication module (in python), which can
> verify a user identity based on a particular speech provided by the
> user. I've have further ideas to integrate it to linux system. For
> that, I've written a PAM module,  both in C as well as in PYTHON
> (using PAM-PYTHON), which incorporates the verification system. I've
> even tried my PAM module with sudo command (/etc/pam.d/sudo) by
> altering the configuration files and it works as charm. Now, I was
> thinking about authenticating users during login. I'm using Ubuntu
> 14.04, which comes preloaded with LIGHTDM, which offers a beautiful
> login screen (greeter). My Question is - is it possible to customize
> the lightdm greeter to use my PAM-Module? I've also heard about
> "WEBKIT"-based lightdm greeter, but all of those uses the predefined
> functions of lightdm object. How can I customize LIGHTDM to use my
> PAM-VOICE module?
>
> I'm a newbie, Kindly show me a way.
>
> Subhomoy
> Guwahati, Assam
>
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