Hi Tramp Development Team,
Would it be possible to add the prompts sudo gives for fingerprint
authentication to the prompts for tramp? Currently it does accept the
fingerprint, however it doesn't show a prompt or give an option to
cancel it and go to password authentication instead, instead timing out
and erroring.
When sudo prompts for fingerprint is gives "Place your finger on the
fingerprint reader", times out with the message "Verification timed out"
after 30 seconds and sends to password verification (at least when run
from shell). Alternatively if you want to cancel fingerprint auth and go
straight to password, you can send Ctrl+C.
Currently when I try to use tramp (and don't use the fingerprint reader)
it times out after 15 seconds with tramp-error: Timeout reached, see
buffer ´*tramp/sudo root@localhost*´ for details, a buffer which
contains "Place your finger on the fingerprint reader". With fprintd
enabled in my /etc/pam.d/sudo I currently have no way of using password
in tramp (unless I add a script that detects being within tramp and
skips fprint).
I hope this can be implemented! I should be able to test an
implementation if someone can work on it (provided I find out how to) if
needed.
Many Thanks,
Neri
N.B. I initially asked this on Emacs StackExchange
<https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/82363/circumvent-sudo-fingerprint-in-tramp>
where it was suggested to request here.
