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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 2.0 Screensavers [and kdm] [and kerberos]
From:       Christian Esken <c.esken () cityweb ! de>
Date:       1999-07-13 21:26:15
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 Waldo Bastian wrote:
>Steffen Hansen wrote:
>> > Steffen, I am pretty sure kdm is much more complete than
>> > kcheckpass, but we simply canīt call kdm for unlocking the 
>> > screen. :-)
>> 
>> It's fine with me, but i cant do it right now. Using kcheckpass
>> might also be a little weird from kdm, since both kdm and
>> kcheckpass will need a connection to the PAM system. Kcheckpass 
>> for auth, kdm for PAM session support.

I see.

>What about putting the functionality in a static library?
>We have only one set of files to maintain and kdm can just
>include the necassery stuff itself then instead of calling
>a different application.

This sounds reasonable. We just need some means to share the
auth mechanism. I donīt care too much, how we share it:

Using a common library, a common code base, or whatever.
Comments, anybody?

  Christian

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