Mh, ok... I didn't think much about this as that was something possible
using gnome-control-center UI or just dbus-calls.

In fact gnome-contrl-center doesn't require any unlocking operation for
setting the fingerprints, by default.

However pfrintd already supports policykit correctly, so IMHO we can be
safe in shipping also that binary, the only important needed action for
us is to patch the file 'net.reactivated.fprint.device.policy' so that
the allow_active is set to auth_self_keep instead of yes (auth_self
would be more restrictive, but prompting the password again during the
enroll process isn't nice).

By doing that both fprintd-enroll and fprintd-delete will just require
an user authentication, such as gnome-control-center.

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