Comments on: Enabling FingerPrint Scanner On ThinkPad X61 Running Ubuntu

By: Karol Krizka

Karol Krizka — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:43:07 +0000

Dan St.Andre: Hmm, that is a good question. I’m not sure. If you know how to configure PAM for application specific login (thinkfinger is a PAM addon), then it should be possible.

By: Dan St.Andre

Dan St.Andre — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:15:10 +0000

Is there any way to use fingerprint for login only and exempt sudo and similar use of fingerprint?

Is it possible to configure which apps demand fingerprint vs. allow fingerprint vs. avoid fingerprint? For example, I want fingerprint reading when I use synaptic or update-manager or other GUI authentication. However, I don’t want fingerprint if I’m doing most command line tasks … I’m already typing so a password is okay. There may be occassional CLI tasks “sudo XXXX” where I want to force a fingerprint to make sure that it is really me running the software.

Cheers,
~~~ 8d;-Dan

~~~ 8d;-Dan

By: Dimitar

Dimitar — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:14:11 +0000

Somehow this screwed up my “sudo” now it doesn’t let me authenticate and I cannot even revert the changes as it requires super user privileges.

I get authentication error, and I haven’t changed my password. Damn!

By: Dan St.Andre

Dan St.Andre — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:10:38 +0000

Where do we find a source to download your scripts?

~~~ Saint 0;-D

By: nicolas roy

nicolas roy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:12:25 +0000

Hello.

the fingerprint recognition works well for any “sudo” command and also at boot, in gdm. But after a “sleep to RAM”, the login windows that appear does not propose to scan the finger, but only to type the passwd. Can we change that ?

ThX,

nicolas

By: dekoninckx

dekoninckx — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:54:41 +0000

Hello,
This sounds great, but how to use the fingerauth and what is it? Having completed the first steps, it says: fingerauth command not found.
X61, Hardy
Thanky you for your kind answer in advance!

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How To Setup fprint For Fingerprint Authentication On Ubuntu | Karol Krizka — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:15:50 +0000

[...] Leo: Man, this stuff is super cool, makes life easier however I have some notes if you dont mind answering: I still… [...]

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:01:07 +0000

Man, this stuff is super cool, makes life easier however I have some notes if you dont mind answering:
I still have the problem of the device heats up, I thought they got fixed in the new release!! any idea how to fix that, Also noticed that the mouse pointer motion started to be slow!
thanks in advanced

By: Karol Krizka

Karol Krizka — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:46:03 +0000

I never heard of that project, but it would be nice having several fingerprints in the database. That way I would not have to rotate the tablet everytime I am holding it at a different orientation.