Hi, Maybe you could rewrite pam_fprint to use fprintd (and thus a central root-owned data storage), which has to happen anyway and thus your work will be probably included upstream.
Fprintd is far from finished and anyone working on it would be greatly appreciated. From what I remember the most major showstopper for fprint development is the process of stabilizing libusb-1, on which the fprintd greatly relies, and fprintd is generally the right interface for libfprint in future. The other problem you are facing is more difficult,PAM does not have a clean way to do one swipe login, and thus the kdm would have to be altered a lot (this has been discussed on the list already). As a kde user, I would be happy to see fprint support soon (4.2 maybe) :) Pavel Mehmet Özgür Bayhan wrote: > Hi. > > I am working on a project by using libfprint and pamfprint.The project is > PARDUS's fingerprint manager.On our system we want to use this library by > default.But we have a problem.Because of our system's structure we must keep > the user's print data in /var/lib/finger-manager directory.(or somewhere > else in the system where is only have root access, not in user's home > directory.).We have to do that because we work on "one finger scan and > choose the user" at our system's kdm login and it seems like it is not > secure to keep the data on user's space. > > The difficulties are: > > 1) your default directory is on user's home our's is somewhere else in the > system where has only root access. > > 2)So we have to change the codes in your libraries(especially pamfprint) > whenever you change the release.In every our package we have to re-arrange > your code. > > 3)Probability of the problems with other programs which uses your library > after the change. > > So we have to learn about the future of the project.Is it possible to keep > the data on anywhere in system which only have root access? > > Anyway.We and our project is waiting for your answer... (: > > Best wishes. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > fprint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint > _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
