Ah. Been digging around and found some wonderful insight on this issue. <quote> I take issue with that -- the Thinkfinger package I've adopted from Debian works quite well for several tasks. The biggest problem is one of security. I think what you want is a fingerprint scan to unlock the GNOME keyring, and firefox and friends to play with that. Sadly, this is impossible to do securely -- the keyrings work by encrypting your various other passwords and data with a master password. Without that protection, your data is sitting on disk somewhere waiting to be read by mean broswer extensions etc in plain text. You can't use a fingerprint as a substitute for a password; the scan isn't identical between reads, the print itself changes over time, and you can't securely store a password on disk to unlock encrypted data on other parts of disk. </quote>
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=419617&highlight=thinkfinger+keyring&page=2 -- Thinkfinger doesn't unlock keyring https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276384 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
