Apple

On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Jeff Groves wrote:

Is it possible the replace the login screen with a custom login screen in MAC OS 10.4?

Yes. This is done using Authorization Plug-ins <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Reference/AuthorizationPluginRef/index.html>.

There are sample plug-ins in /Developer/Examples/Security/.

PAM is essentially a compatibility layer on Mac OS X. We don't encourage developers to use it, largely because PAM is not hooked into much of the Mac OS X security infrastructure as it lives at the UNIX layer. For example, PAM can't make use of smart cards or biometrics devices while the higher-level infrastructure can.

More questions can be posted to the apple-cdsa list.

--gc

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Garth Cummings email@hidden

Sr. Software Engineer

Apple Developer Technical Support

<http://developer.apple.com/technicalsupport>

References:
	>PAM Support (From: "Jeff Groves" <email@hidden>)