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punkrockguy318

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2004-02-15

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ADM -- Suggestions

If you remember, a while back I started a Arch display manager project.  I've been making progress smoothly, but I've run into a problem.  Login.  After I get all login information, how can I check this information and log the user in?  Any C functions/libraries that you know of?  Maybe a bash script?  Thanks a lot!!

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: ADM -- Suggestions

Did you get rasat's message for a forum dedicated to ADM?

http://bliss-solutions.org/archlinux/pr … b314076bd4

I've been looking through the agetty and login code in the util-linux package. I can't make a lot of sense out of it, but I'm not very fluent in C.

I suppose you could also take a look at the kdm/gdm code... not to emulate, but to improve on. :-D

Its easy to deal with passwords in python... unless you use shadow utils. :-D

Dusty

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: ADM -- Suggestions

Have a look at the PAM stuff.  That's what we use now and there have to be a lot of relavent docs.

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