pam_usb for Linux 0.5.0

pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary USB Flash Drives.<br />It works with any application supporting PAM, such as su, any login manager (GDM, KDM), etc. The pam_usb package contains:<br /><br /> A PAM Module<br /> Password-less authentication. Use your USB stick for authentication, don't type passwords anymore.<br /> Device auto probing.You don't need to mount the device, or even to configure the device location (sda1, sdb1, etc). pam_usb.so will automatically locate the device using UDisks (HAL was used before 0.5.0) and access its data by itself.<br /> Two-factor authentication. Achieve greater security by requiring both the USB stick and the password to authenticate the user.<br /> Non-intrusive. pam_usb doesn't require any modifications of the USB storage device to work (no additional partitions required).<br /> USB Serial number, model and vendor verification.<br /> Support for One Time Pads authentication.<br /> You can use the same device accross multiple machines.<br /> Support for all kind of removable devices (SD, MMC, etc).<br />

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	*nix, Linux
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