Il giorno mar, 20/04/2010 alle 15.54 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 16:37 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 20/04/2010 alle 14.21 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto: 
> > > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 15:03 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm an Ubuntu user which has fprint working fine on an "AuthenTec, Inc.
> > > > AES1600".
> > > > 
> > > > However, "fine" means that after editing pam configuration it works for
> > > > - login (gdm)
> > > > - privileges escalation (policykit)
> > > > 
> > > > _but_ I found no hints on how to configure pam configuration to use it
> > > > when waking up from standby/hibernation/locked screen.
> > > 
> > > If by that you mean unlocking the screensaver, then you'd need to setup
> > > your screensaver to do that. This is what Fedora would do if you enabled
> > > fingerprint authentication.
> > 
> > I don't know if I know what I mean, but I ask just the following: when
> > you wakeup from suspend a laptop with Fedora, I guess in its standard
> > configuration it will ask a password, right? Now, is it possible to use
> > the fingerprint instead than giving a password?
> > 
> > I tried to add
> > 
> > auth   sufficient                      pam_fprint.so
> > 
> > at the beginning of /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver but with no success (I
> > admit I ignore if Fedora has similar configuration files).
> > 
> > By "setup your screensaver" you mean gnome-screensaver-preferences?
> 
> 1) Don't use pam_fprint, use pam_fprintd


Which, I guess, is included in fprintd, which, I guess, had still no
official releases? Or did I miss something?

> 2) It works doing something similar in Fedora
> 
> You can try it out using a Fedora 12 live CD to compare. In Fedora, it
> was integrated in authconfig, so you just have to tick a box to enable
> Fingerprint authentication.

I will certainly try, thank you

Pietro

> 
> In any case, my guess is that pam stack can't load the pam_fprint
> module, enable debug in gnome-screensaver, or if there's no errors
> there, enable debug for the module.
> 
> Cheers


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