[Desktop12.04-Topic] Improved Authentication

[Didier Roche]

Le 05/10/2011 06:30, Robert Ancell a écrit :
> It would be nice to improve the authentication mechanisms in Ubuntu to
> be more user friendly and make it easier to enable modern authentication
> schemes.  This will probably involve:
> - Reviewing the messages/prompts in PAM for appropriateness
> - Adding hints to PAM to allow GUIs to better display the prompts (i.e.
> if a prompt is for a password, key number, if prompting for a password
> change).
> - Improving the Unity Greeter prompts to interpret the hints
> - Improving PolicyKit to interpret the hints
> - Making it easier to enable non-password authentication (e.g. LDAP, two
> factor).
>

I would love a gesture based login on a picture/photo… I guess we need
good gesture library for shape (detecting circle, lines and such) around
geis.

Didier