Don't worry about the delay! Thanks for the work you do.
The reason for my post was that the --add-user and --verify-user options
do not work with the version of tf-tool in the package. The man page says
that these are available "only when ThinkFinger has been compiled with PAM
support."
Best regards,
Andy
---From the manpage:
--add-user "login"
Acquire a fingerprint for the user identified by login. If this user
or the bir folder /etc/pam_thinkfinger do not exist, tf-tool exits with an
error. If the acquiring process is successful, the fingerprint is stored
in the bir folder as /etc/pam_thinkfinger/login.bir. This option is
available only when ThinkFinger has been compiled with PAM support.
--verify-user "login"
Verify a fingerprint for the user identified by login. If this user or
the bir folder /etc/pam_thinkfinger do not exist, tf-tool exits with an
error. This option is available only when ThinkFinger has been compiled
with PAM support.
In the configuration script for thinkfinger there is:
--enable-pam build PAM module
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Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Luca Capello wrote:
Hi Andrew!
I'm really sorry for the delay.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:21:10 +0100, Andrew Perrin wrote:
tf-tool is built without PAM support, so it cannot be used to allow
login security using PAM. Since this is a central reason for using the
fingerprint reader, it ought to be available.
Can you elaborate more on what you mean by "tf-tool is built without PAM
support"? tf-tool has nothing to do with PAM: it's an utility to
acquire/verify fingerprints.
I guess you ignore the existence of libpam-thinkfinger, the PAM module
allowing fingerprint login through ThinkFinger.
OTOH, if you're referring to the fact that tf-tool cannot be launched by
a non-root user, I already fixed the permission problems for the USB
device (SVN r83, bug #469043 [2]) and for the uinput device (SVN r84,
bug #469048 [3]). These fixes, together with the move of tf-tool from
/usr/sbin to /usr/bin [1], will be present in the next Debian version.
If you don't reply to this mail in one week, I'll close the bug.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
Footnotes:
[1]
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87wsojwett.fsf%40gismo.pca.it%3e
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