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On Jul 22, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Vincent WYON wrote:

Hi,

My company 'd like to implement their proper logon on mac osX (from panther). So, I'll have to change the logonwindow and his standard authentification like the cryptocard society implemented....

We have some stand alone powerbook, and we don't want to use kerberos.

The problem is that there are only very few documents telling it ("authorization_ref.pdf", "AuthorizationPluginRef.pdf", "AuthServicesObjCRef.pdf"), and i do not know how to begin.....

I know that I implement a bundle to place in SecurityAgentPlugins directory, but how to implement it ?????

I know that I modify the etc/authorization file, but what I change in it ?????

Can anybody help me ??? Is there any other document ???

Thanks for your answers

vince

The engineers who work on this stuff hang out on the apple-cdsa mailing list (CDSA is Common Data Security Architecture):

<http://lists.apple.com/apple-cdsa>.

The short answer is that you want to upgrade to Tiger. Smart card login is built in on Tiger, so you don't need to write a new authorization plugin to handle smart cards on Tiger like you would need to do on Panther.

Tiger accesses smart cards using small processes called tokends that encapsulate the details of accessing a card. Support for the DOD CAC card, the Belgian Personal Identity Card, and the Japanese JPKI card ships with Tiger. Other cards will require a tokend to be developed, but this is a simple project to implement.

Support for writing tokends is available either through Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS) or the apple-cdsa mailing list.

There is preliminary documentation available for building a tokend from the Darwin sources. Just send your request to DTS at <email@hidden>. The documentation will be sent without costing you a support incident, but technical support from DTS beyond that will most likely require a support incident.

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Garth Cummings

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	>how changing loginwindow in mac osX ? (From: "Vincent WYON" <email@hidden>)