[opensuse] using fprintd with opensuse
Hello, I have several laptops having a working fingerprint reader (working on the other OS :-() how can I make them work with openSUSE kde/plasma (15.2)? all the fprintd commands are installed by default (no action from me), but fprintd-enroll don't seems to react device is Authentec AES 2501 I read https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/391137-How-to-integrate-Authentec... https://loblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/opensuse-103-on-toshiba-portege-r500... and could enroll my right index finger, but changing /etc/pam.d/... is discouraged in the file and anyway don't work https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/506187-Fingerprint-Reader-and-ope... obviously don't apply (no /lib/security) any hint? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
18.10.2020 09:43, jdd@dodin.org пишет:
Hello,
I have several laptops having a working fingerprint reader (working on the other OS :-()
how can I make them work with openSUSE kde/plasma (15.2)?
all the fprintd commands are installed by default (no action from me), but fprintd-enroll don't seems to react
device is Authentec AES 2501
I read
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/391137-How-to-integrate-Authentec...
https://loblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/opensuse-103-on-toshiba-portege-r500...
and could enroll my right index finger, but changing /etc/pam.d/... is discouraged in the file and anyway don't work
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/506187-Fingerprint-Reader-and-ope...
obviously don't apply (no /lib/security)
pam_fprint was replaced by pam_fprintd, pam-config supports both of them so if you do not want to edit PAM configuration manually, use pam-config -a --fprintd I believe it was also possible to enable support via YaST but I do not remember where. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 18/10/2020 à 09:24, Andrei Borzenkov a écrit :
pam_fprint was replaced by pam_fprintd, pam-config supports both of them so if you do not want to edit PAM configuration manually, use
pam-config -a --fprintd
yes, it works. But I could only notice the driver (?) is unreliable. I can sometime enroll my right index, (4 times aas expected), but never verify it, and adding it to pam lock the compputer. I have seen somewhere than pam needs two sessions to be able to accept both fingerprint and passwd
I believe it was also possible to enable support via YaST but I do not remember where.
neither me, and a fingerprint-gui is not available on 15.2 :-( thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 10/18/20 3:51 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
pam-config -a --fprintd
yes, it works. But I could only notice the driver (?) is unreliable. I can sometime enroll my right index, (4 times aas expected), but never verify it, and adding it to pam lock the compputer.
I have seen somewhere than pam needs two sessions to be able to accept both fingerprint and passwd
Be very, very, very leery of using any of the fingerprint readers under Linux. They are generally only actually supported by proprietary drivers, and as you have found the currently available drivers are not foolproof. There were articles a few years ago about problems that could effectively lock some laptops to the point you couldn't boot any OS. I have not researched it since, but make sure you fully research the exact hardware you have before enabling the reader as an authentication measure. As I recall, there were some boxes where the driver interfaces with a separate ROM chip on the motherboard where the print data is stored -- and the problem was if the reader stored setup stored corrupted data -- then it was a very serious issue. That being said Ubuntu seems to be working with libprintf (which I guess is what you are referring to) to help improve the reliability of the reader software under Linux -- but they do so without addressing the different hardware or metrics storage routines -- so verify then mess with it :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 20/10/2020 à 07:35, David C. Rankin a écrit :
Be very, very, very leery of using any of the fingerprint readers under Linux. They are generally only actually supported by proprietary drivers, and as you have found the currently available drivers are not foolproof.
thanks. jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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