Comment # 4 on bug 1040206 from Moritz Rakow

In the Gnome Help it is mentioned that login via fingerprint can be configured
in the settings (not visible to me, probably because the reader is not
detected).

I installed the fingerprint packages (`fprintd`, `fprintd-pam`, `libfprint0`,
and `libfprint-examples`) from the official repo and ran the demo, but no
device could be detected.

`libfprint-examples` contains three demo programs, all of which reported "No
devices detected." `fprintd-enroll` exists with "No devices available".

So it seems to be a question of hardware support.

For me personally, missing fingerprint support is not an issue, but I tested it
because in the [QA google doc][1] it is marked as high-priority.

Secondly, we should probably update the SDB page on fingerprints, the
fingerprint yast module was [dropped  in openSUSE 13.1][2] which was more than
three years ago.

I've reopened the bug because the issue is not with a missing configuration
feature in Yast, but with underlying hardware support.

[1]:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AGKijKpKiJCB616-bHVoNQuhWHpQLHPWCb3m1p6gXPc/edit#gid=298435253

[2]: https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/13.1/