2026-09-29 10:51 UTC
@JdeBP@tty0.social Thanks. Note that I'm interested in what PAM clients do, but I'm also interested in what they wish they could do and cannot because the PAM design is lacking.
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@JdeBP@tty0.social 2026-09-29 12:19
@ska@social.treehouse.systems This is a well-known area of conflict between #PAM and application architectures, not just #OpenSSH but GUI login programs too. I've got a TUI PAM-using app that does WIMP-like things, and it presents the #OpenPAM "conversation" as a series of modal (text-mode) dialogue boxes; and that's really the only way that PAM lets applications, GUI or TUI, work with it. Whether GUI or TUI, modal dialogues operate by having an inner, secondary, UI event loop, and that's sometimes a problem.