[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#502772: Bug#502772: Bug#502772: gnome autologin user should depend on boot passsword

[Jonas Meurer]

reassign 502772 wnpp
retitle 502772 RFP: tokentube - integration component for LUKS and PAM
severity 502772 wishlist
noowner 502772
thanks

On 15/03/2011 Jonas wrote:
> Hello Josh,
> 
> On 15/03/2011 Josh Triplett wrote:
> > This bug report seems to have gotten closed based on an incorrect
> > interpretation of the original report.  Reopening, retitling, and
> > re-requesting.
> > 
> > The report makes the reasonable request that since an encrypted
> > filesystem can have multiple passphrases associated with it, those
> > passphrases could have associated usernames.  Cryptsetup could then use
> > the passphrase provided to look up the associated username, and provide
> > that username to later phases of the boot process somehow, such as to
> > GDM to allow it to select that username for autologin.  Thus, the user
> > would enter their passphrase to decrypt the disk, and not need to
> > subsequently log in with a username and password.
> > 
> > That seems like a reasonable request, and it should not impact system
> > security in any way.
> 
> I agree that this is a valid feature request. I'm not sure though
> whether it should be implemented within the cryptsetup package, or in a
> new package that uses and depends on cryptsetup.
> 
> I remember that Jürgen Pabel developed something very similar to your
> request called tokentube (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tokentube/) I
> haven't checked it for years, but it seems like the project is still
> active.
> 
> Maybe you should take a look at it and rephrase the bugreport into an
> ITP for tokentube if that's what you're searching for.

rephrasing the bugreport as a request for packaging for tokentube as
suggested.

greetings,
 jonas

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