It sure would and the Yale guys even had an implementation. 

- Peter -





Elliot Lee writes:
 > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Robert Watson wrote:
 > 
 > > > 1) Is there any way to get Coda to do a clog upon login under Linux? 
 > > > Perhaps this could be accomplished via PAM?
 > > 
 > > Due to the nature of the 'Coda Tokens', the auth server must know the
 > > secret being used by the client (that is, their password) and be able to
 > > associate it with the user account.  As I understand it, PAM does not have
 > > an API call that goes: IHaveAUsernameGiveMeTheirSecret(), and in fact the
 > > standard UNIX model of having one-way-hashed passwords prohibits this.
 > 
 > Correct me if I'm wrong, but what part of:
 > 
 > 	char *username, *password;
 > 	pam_get_user(pamhandle, "Log in you bastard", &username);
 > 	pam_get_item(pamhandle, PAM_AUTHTOK, &password);
 > 	auth_server_authenticate(username, password);
 > 
 > Would not work?
 > -- Elliot
 > "In film you will find four basic story lines. Man versus man, man
 >  versus nature, nature versus nature, and dog versus vampire."
 >     - Steven Spielberg