[Bug 203973] Re: thinkfinger-tools doesn't provide the --add-user switch

2008-03-22 Thread Justin Dugger
The manpage for thinkfinger is misleading, but I'm afraid you're all simply wrong. ldd `which tf-tool` clearly shows that it's linked against pam. To enroll a new user, you simply need to run "sudo tf-tool --acquire". That will be enough in hardy to enroll a user. You do not need to copy the fil

[Bug 203973] Re: thinkfinger-tools doesn't provide the --add-user switch on amd64

2008-03-22 Thread Eduardo Cereto
Same thing here. But I'm on intel so this is not restricted to amd64. Something caught my eye on tf-tool man page: >This option is available only >when ThinkFinger has been compiled with PAM support. I don't know how the linkage is done in the insides. But my bet is t

[Bug 203973] Re: thinkfinger-tools doesn't provide the --add-user switch on amd64

2008-03-21 Thread Muelli
I can confirm that behaviour. The manpage tells us to use tf-tool --add-user though it is patched out. It is supposed to copy the bir-file to /etc/pam_thinkfinger/$USER.bir This is easy to achieve: generate your thinkfinger.bir file with tf-tool --acquire and either hardlink it to /etc/pam_libth