@loke:
NO, IT CAN'T!
Sorry, maybe I'm just too stupid to explain this in a comprehensible
way.
Last try:
Authentication and encryption are two fundamental different things. You
can't "unlock" an encrypted thing(tm) with a fingerprint. To decrypt an
encrypted thing you need to know the secret, which was used to encrypt
this thing. (Commonly known as passphrase.) This is not the place to
teach the most trivial basics of cryptography, but you could read the
last comment by Milan again to learn, why you can't use fingerprints for
that.
If you would like to allow pam to do the decryption, you would have to
provide pam with the secret, and if you don't want people having to
enter this secret manually, then you'd have to save it on disk, which
would be equivalent to writing your password with a big marker onto the
frame of your monitor. (And no, you can't encrypt the passphrase itself
without introducing another secret - hen and egg problem.)
So if you don't mind about effective encryption of your password safe,
then use an empty passphrase for your Gnome keyring and go ahead. But
please, people, stop filling this bug report over and over with this
same crap. Thinkfinger can't open the keyring and most likely won't
ever. At least unless it is discovered, that the hardware itself does
contain some kind of password store.
Full stop.
*tagging this bug as invalid*
** Changed in: thinkfinger (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Thinkfinger doesn't unlock keyring
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276384
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