Hello! Just came across the bug myself. Some googling and voila, here I am. Thanks for already making the point clear and posting the description!
Until a proper solution is published, I think one can limit the danger by disallowing ordinary users from enrolling (and other stuff): sudo chmod o-x /usr/bin/fprintd* If you wish to re-enroll/change ordinary user's fingerprints, use sudo and the [username] option (see fprintd-enroll manpage): sudo fprintd-enroll [username] I hope that helps for now, cheers, Bb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532264 Title: fprintd allows unauthorized root access To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fprintd/+bug/1532264/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
