Am Samstag, den 03.06.2006, 15:44 +0200 schrieb Maurizio Colucci: > Hi, > Yesterday, when I had a friend of mine try the new Ubuntu, I had an > unpleasant suprise: he laughed at me when he saw me type the password > by hand. It seems he has been using a fingerprint reader under > Windows, for more than a year now. > > I realized this is a feature that he will not do without, now he has > gotten used to it. > > It seems the advantage under GNU/Linux would be even greater, since > GNU/Linux requires you to type passwords more often than Windows. > > Is there some way to use a fingerprint reader to type passwords with > Gnome? (My guess is it isn't, and that some work would be needed at > the level of gksu and gdm.) > > I have no real point however, I only wished to inform you about this. > Cheers
I filed an Ubuntu spec some months ago: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FingerprintAuthentication All the tools seem to be available already. As soon as the framework is in place, we'll adapt the GNOME stack to support it, creating a configuration and authentication UI, and gnome-keyring integration. I contacted the BioAPI packager Michael R. Crusoe some time ago to ask him whether he will split up the packages a bit, but I didn't get any response so far. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
