On 4 March 2008 20:05:14 Daniel Drake wrote: > Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > > Hi, Daniel. Do you plan to change method of fingerprints storing? It's > > not a very good idea to store enrolled fingerprints in home directory, as > > it's inconvinient, especially if you want to perform identification of > > different users with separate accounts. AFAIR, libfprint doesn't provide > > any functionality to work with fingerprints of several users at one time. > > > > I can reimplement/fix libfprint storage functions if you agreed with my > > humble opinion ;) > > What's your suggestion for fixing it? > > Daniel
Storage should be configurable (centralized file storage, ldap storage, mysql storage, etc), depends on option passed during configure. For first time I want to implement centralized file storage, i.e. fingerprints will be stored, for example, in /var/lib/fprint/user_name. Of course, correct permissions should be setted on folders and files, so user can access only to its fingerprints, and privileged user can access to all (necessary for kdm and pam to perform identification). Also some API calls should be added to libfprint for switching between users' fingerprints sets (only for privileged user), and for getting list of users who has enrolled fingerprints (only for privileged user too) Well, I'm not sure whether libfprint or fprintd should have this functionality :( But btw, real applications require more advanced storage than we have now. Regards Vasily _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
