Yet another release of pam_usb
By scox on Saturday, September 15 2007, 01:24 - security - Permalink
Just a quick blog entry to introduce you to the new version of pam_usb (0.4.2), which I've just released a few minutes ago.
This release focuses on bugfixes and small enhancements. Here's a non exhaustive list of them:
- Better hardware support: Thanks to user feedback, a lot of improvements have been made in hardware support. Now devices without vendor and model informations can be used for authentication.
- Support for non USB devices: You can now use every kind of removable storage devices, such as SD or MMC cards.
- Reduced writing to the device: Pads aren't updated everytime you authenticate anymore, but (by default) only once an hour. This feature can be turned off by setting pads_expiration to 0, or you can adjust it to a more suitable value (2h, 10m etc are valid options).
- Many other smaller bugfixes and features have been included, such as the DBUS workaround and support for Python 2.5.
I'd like to thank all the users who contributed by sending their feedback and patches.
Comments
i'm running new version of ubuntu 7.10 gibson...i apt-getted version of pamusb but it returned error no devices found...so i've donwloaded this new version..but now it found my usb key but say that doesn't contain any volume....why??..bugs in dbus..or error in managing of usb disk of this version of kernel (scsi managing)..plz try to understand and give to me a solution...:D
running pamusb on kubuntu gutsy gibson. how do you put pad on multiple usb devices. i have one for work and one for school and really don;t want to keep swapping. when you create key on both it stops working all together.
Hi! I tried the pamusb I'v installed it like its been written on the site but when I try to check if the usb is connected I get something like this, depending on which user I'm checking the devices connection:
sanesh@sanesh-laptop:~$ pamusb-check labor
If I trie to connect in real as labor in recowery mode then a I get this error:
*Cannot connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket/var/run/dbus/systembussocket: No such file or directory*Acces deniedPassword:
but the file it needs is in the exact place it is loking for... What is the problem?
Hi Andrea
Thanks for the work on pam_usb, working good on my Gentoo boxes.
First thought: it should be possible to assign a single agent for all users, instead of for example having to put a screensaver agent for every user account separately.