USB PAM login with SD Card

Question

I am trying to set up a PAM login token. I want to use an SD card instead of a normal USB flash disk.

When I run the pamusb-conf to set up a new device, with the SD card inserted, it says that there is no device detected. The SD card reader works fine in other respects (able to access through the GUI and through /media in terminal). I run pamusb-conf in verbose mode and just get the following:

$ sudo pamusb-conf --verbose --add-device sdauth
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0
    Invalid: Device does not contain any volume
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/mmcblk0
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/dm_2d0
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda1
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda2
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/mmcblk0p1
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda5
    Invalid: Not a removable device
Inspecting /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb
    Invalid: Device does not contain any volume
No devices detected. Try running in verbose (-v) mode to see what's going on.

pamusb-conf works fine with a normal USB pendrive.

How can I make it so that I can use an SD card for pamusb?

Thanks.

Answer 1

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:garhuy/pamusb
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libpam-usb pamusb-common pamusb-tools

This is patched pamusb by garhuy "https://launchpad.net/~garhuy/+archive/pamusb" which enables sdcard support.

I know its been 7 months after you posted it but it appears very high in google so it might be very handy for someone looking for it.