Pam-duress Alternatives

pam-duress reviews and mentions

• Delete files upon entering a certain password?
  1 project | /r/privacy | 18 Apr 2023
• French Supreme court: Refusing to provide your phone password is a crime.
  5 projects | /r/privacy | 10 Nov 2022

  On Linux, there’s pam-duress: https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

• vault timeout options
  1 project | /r/Bitwarden | 30 Jun 2022

  Multi-step timeout would be a good alternative, especially for mobile. For desktop, I have this awesome PAM set up to remove everything associated with my regular user account.

• Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022

  It's actually quite simple and readily available with PAM duress [0] (at least on Linux, I'm not sure about PAM on Mac). It was also discussed here already [1]. Still, you should consider that doing so might not work in your favor.

  [0] https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28267975

• Help with pam, specifically pam_duress
  2 projects | /r/Gentoo | 22 May 2022

  # Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 EAPI=8 inherit pam toolchain-funcs VER_COMMIT="04e607f9ab674c8dbbf27ea8bb59158178a72f69" DESCRIPTION="A PAM module enabling special 'duress' passwords that will execute arbitrary scripts" HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress" SRC_URI="https://github.com/nuvious/${PN}/archive/${VER_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="LGPL-3" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~amd64" IUSE="debug" DEPENDS="dev-libs/openssl sys-libs/pam" RDEPENDS="${DEPENDS}" S="${WORKDIR}/pam-duress-${VER_COMMIT}" src_prepare() { default sed -e "/^CC :=/s|:= .*|:= $(tc-getCC)|" -e "/^CFLAGS :=/s|-O2|${CFLAGS}|" \ -i Makefile || die } src_compile() { emake $(use debug && echo "debug") } src_install() { dobin bin/duress_sign dobin bin/pam_test dopammod bin/pam_duress.so einstalldocs }

• Dead Man's Switch?
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 May 2022

  Using https://github.com/xmidt-org/dms & https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress to shred LUKS headers: https://www.buskill.in/luks-self-destruct/

• self destroying luks?
  3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 8 May 2022

  maybe https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

• can you set up a locking manager so when you log in with specific username/password it doesnt let you in and just takes a photo?
  1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 7 May 2022

  This repo gives you one such tool. It triggers a script when a specific password is used, and can then hand over control to the usual unlocking process or not (as you asked for). The script is whatever you want: taking a pic, maybe transmit it over the internet, possibly including live video, audio and location, distress message, etc. The script can also erase the app, itself and the log entries, then unlocking as if nothing had happend. A downside is that, at least from the repo description and instructions, the Duress action triggers on specific user and password, not on anything but the correct combination. Still, you asked for specific user and password.

• Use secondary login password to trigger selfdestruct
  2 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 21 Feb 2022
• Is it possible to enter fake pin code to "unlock" phone/computer?
  1 project | /r/privacy | 24 Jan 2022

  So far, I've only come across one solution for Linux, called PAM Duress. It executes a script when you log in, so you'd probably need to add some actions that make the files unavailable. I haven't used it myself, as I'm a Windows user.

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