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regarding libpam-fprint: does not fully work with XDM
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Package: libpam-fprint
Version: 20080330+git-5
Severity: important
Hi there!
Here the situation, which, together with #469059, renders libpam-fprint
simply useless for me. The title of this bug is self-explicative, in
the sense that libpam-fprint works with XDM, but in a weird way.
First, there is no prompt at all, which means that as soon as you type
your username and press ENTER, nothing is shown, not either a greyed-out
'Password' field.
Second, because of the first problem, the user does not know how to
proceed. The trick is simply to swipe your finger, very carefully, and
hope that everything is OK. If it is so, then the user is logged in,
while if it is not, again, given that there is no prompt nor error
messages, the user is simply lost. Pressing ENTER does not do anything
and swiping "false" fingers (i.e. fingers which the user knows there are
no fingerprint associated with) does not solve the situation: the
'Password' prompt is never shown.
BTW, this is with xdm_1:1.1.10-3.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libpam-fprint depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfprint0 20100820git-1 async fingerprint library of fprin
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
libpam-fprint recommends no packages.
libpam-fprint suggests no packages.
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This bug affected a very old version of fprintd that is not maintained anymore.
Feel free to reopen it in case new versions are affeceted too.
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