Bug 477758

Summary:	Allow using a PIN to unlock
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Miguel Rozsas <miguel>
Component:	Screen locking	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	carol.ouellet, john.kizer, nate, Nick.Vandenberghe+kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Miguel Rozsas 2023-11-30 09:53:12 UTC

I just setup my system, after a little struggle, to accept a PIN to unlock a session already open using the regular password.
I wish you could embrace the PIN to unlock the kde session, fully !
I mean, make easy to the user to choose to use a PIN by giving the proper GUI option in kde config panel and make the screenlocker to display the proper prompt at unlock screen, and accept the PIN without a ENTER key at end. A button to switch to  use the full password (one time action) to unlock the screen would be nice too.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-11-30 20:48:07 UTC

How did you set it up this way?

Comment 2 Miguel Rozsas 2023-11-30 21:04:49 UTC

Not exactly that way.
The way I described it is an improvement .
For instance, the unlock screen shows no indication it is expecting a PIN. Also, I have to press ENTER after the PIN. 
I've followed this [blog](https://blog.fancypi.cn/blog/pin_login_in_kde.html) and manually install the package libpam-pwdfile and manually edited the file /usr/lib/pam.d/kde.

Comment 3 Nick Vandenberghe 2024-10-15 08:19:58 UTC

(In reply to Miguel Rozsas from comment #2)
> Not exactly that way.
> The way I described it is an improvement .
> For instance, the unlock screen shows no indication it is expecting a PIN.
> Also, I have to press ENTER after the PIN. 
> I've followed this
> [blog](https://blog.fancypi.cn/blog/pin_login_in_kde.html) and manually
> install the package libpam-pwdfile and manually edited the file
> /usr/lib/pam.d/kde.

May i ask how you did manually install the package ? 
I'm new to linux, and couldn't find the package using dnf

Comment 4 John Kizer 2025-06-16 19:37:21 UTC

Merging together requests here since they're functionally for the same feature. Thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 411698 ***