Hi Alex, On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Alex Porras <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying out fprint on a Lenovo E460 laptop with a fingerprint reader > that uses the vfs501 driver. Reading through the security notes wiki page, > it looks like some drivers may or may not write fingerprint data to the hard > drive: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/Security_notes/ > > I have successfully tested scanning one print, yet despite storage of this > print in fprint-demo, I do not see any files written to /var/lib/fprint. > However, looking at the source code for the driver makes me think it deals > with image data: > > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/tree/libfprint/drivers/vfs5011.c#n150 > > (That being said, I'm not super proficient in C, so maybe I'm misreading > this.) > > Is there perhaps a better way to determine/confirm how this driver handles > the capture/verification of the fingerprint?
fprintd stores fingerprint data (not to be confused with fingerprint image) in /var/lib/fprint fprint_demo stores fingerprint data at ~/.fprint/prints. Note that fprint_demo uses libfprint directly, not through fprintd. Regards, Vasily _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
