[15811] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: a suggestion for improving pkinit preauth plugin token choosing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Wed May 12 16:32:38 2010
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:31:12 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:56:35AM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 08:56 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > For example, what should that prompt read? "Press enter," may be right
> > for a CLI instance, but will be wrongish for gdm.
>
> In a previous discussion, I suggested adding a prompt type for
> "continue". The text would then be something to the effect of "Please
> insert your token.", and it would be up to the prompter implementation
> to convey how to continue. For instance, the POSIX prompter might
> display
>
> Please insert your token.
> Press enter to continue:
>
> and the GDM prompter might display a dialog saying "Please insert your
> token." with continue and cancel buttons.
+1 (though there's no point in having cancel buttons here)
Nico
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