You'll have to disable common-auth in /etc/pam.d and manually enter
the authentications you want, for example:
auth    required        pam_env.so
auth    required        pam_unix2.so

I had already done it and it worked.

Georges.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:48 AM, J.L.H.W. Linkels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  fprint works great otherwise, but when I am logged in remotely thru SSH and
>  want to become root, PAM asks for a fingerprint scan. I only can fulfill that
>  request by going over to the laptop and swipe my finger.
>
>  Logging in remotely thru SSH is apparently detected and possible, no finger
>  print asked. Obviously logging in as root remotely is disabled, so I must log
>  in as user first and then do 'su'.
>
>  I am sure this is not so much a bug in fprint as something which has to be
>  configured. But how can you configure that 'su' must not use fprint
>  authentication when you are connected remotely? How can PAM detect that you
>  ssh in instead of using an xterm? And once this is detected, how do you
>  exclude fprint authentication? I found ways to include authentication in the
>  various /etc/pam.d file, but not how to exclude something. In each
>  file 'common-auth' is included, but 'common-auth' contains the line which
>  enables pam_fprint.
>
>  Thanks
>  jlinkels
>
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