Bug#656296: Patch for password syncing between LDAP/Kerberos/Samba in Debian Edu

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi Petter,

thanks for your feedback.

On Mo 05 Nov 2012 13:16:31 CET Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Mike Gabriel]
> > Linux solution: dpkg-divert original password tool and replace by a
> > wrapper that points the user to using http://www/gosa
>
> Alternative idea, which work for more use cases, is to use pam_python
> to implement a password module that reject the password change and ask
> people to use gosa.  This could make sure also GUI tools to change
> passwords show the message.
>
> We already use pam_python for other tasks, so it is no new dependency.

So, I will address this then in this way...

  o no $DISPLAY set -> output a line of text to stdout
  o $DISPLAY set -> use kdialog/zenity/pynotify to show a message

My vote will be for pynotify as most desktop shells support  
notifications in squeeze.

Mike

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