Re: Customize Login Manager?
Re: Customize Login Manager?
- Subject: Re: Customize Login Manager?
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:12:38 +0000
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 04:56 PM, Dannie M. Stanley wrote:
My company is considering opening a cyber cafe full of Macs. I would
like to develope a GUI application that either ran during or prior-to
the login manager (or maybe even replaced it). We would like to use a
card reader to accept user credentials (possibly from a credit card)
create the user then log them in all based on the magnetic strip.
Your best bet might be a standard account used in conjunction with a
custom authenticator.
I was told that it is not easy to replace the login manager since it is
compiled into the system, but I know this is easy on other Unix like
systems (GDM, XDM, KDM). Is this claim accurate?
The login application is more closely integrated with the system in OS
X, and would be very difficult to replace.
Can we develope a GUI application that runs during or prior-to the
login manager? Or can it be replaced?
Depending on what you want to you, you might be able to either create a
loginwindow plugin or a custom authenticator. For an example of a custom
authenticator, see pam_loginwindow in the Darwin CVS repository (see
http://www.opensource.apple.com). You might like to talk to someone like
Luke Howard (who wrote that authenticator) or some loginwindow engineer
about it, too.
-- Finlay