https://github.com/nfc-tools/pam_nfc

NFC-based PAM authentification module
https://github.com/nfc-tools/pam_nfc

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NFC-based PAM authentification module

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nfc-tools/pam_nfc
• Owner: nfc-tools
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-04-07T12:40:09.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-06T18:00:12.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-05T11:34:20.321Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 153 KB
• Stars: 43
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

          
README for pam_nfc

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pam_nfc is a NFC-based PAM authentication module.

Using pam_nfc, you can use NFC (Near Field Communication) cards / tags to

authorise users into PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules).

Security consideration

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Since tag IDs cannot be trusted, you SHOULD not only rely on them to grant

access to the machine to users.  You SHOULD only consider this PAM module as a

convenient way for a user to tell his own machine who he is.

Basically, the NFC reader is physically connected to the computer, so if an

user has a physical access to the NFC initiator, he also has physical access to

the computer, and thus strong authentication is already of no luck.