Feature changed by: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) Feature #306752, revision 18 Title: Login by fingerprint openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Michael Löffler (michl19) reject date: 2009-08-11 14:49:06 reject reason: too late for 11.2, moved to 11.3 Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Frank Helbo Christensen (fhc) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Many laptops today comes with fingerprint readers. I even got it working in openSuSE 11.0, but it was a bit complicated. Why not enable this feature by default and have it integrated in the "About me" dialog, soo you can scan you finger just like changing password? Discussion: #2: Michael Löffler (michl19) (2009-08-11 14:50:57) Would this do any harm for machines not having a finger print reader? And in general does our finger print reader support works with the majority of laptops? #3: (kamikazow) (2009-10-10 23:02:02) (reply to #2) No, it would be optional. IIRC GDM already supports something like that. #4: (kamikazow) (2009-10-10 23:15:07) It's already in development: http://lists.kde.org/?t=125386485900001&r=1&w=2 http://blog.djaara.net/wordpress/kategorie/english/kfingermanager/ Hopefully it'll be ready for KDE 4.4 and hence openSUSE 11.3. Maybe Lubos can lend a hand there. #6: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2010-02-10 20:17:24) For GNOME, we just need to package fprintd and friends: http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page + #7: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) (2014-11-21 10:50:54) + That was implemented and then taken off the distribution again. So I + think the code is still there. Fact is; it is unsafe practice, as + fingerprint reader are extremely easy to fool. The give a false sense + of security. IMO this feature would make sense in a strategy of two + factor authorization. So to log in you need a user Password and the + fingerprint. Then for me it would make sense, but only the reader + wouldn't. + P.S. I do have one on my laptop but do not use it for unlocking my SED + HDD rightly for this reason. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306752