Comments on: How To Setup fprint For Fingerprint Authentication On Ubuntu

By: Karol Krizka

Karol Krizka — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:29:19 +0000

Nick: You can use a text editor. Type the following in a terminal:
sudo gedit /etc/pam.d/common-auth

You will be then asked for your password (the sudo command gives you administrator privileges) and a text editor will pop up.

By: Nick Karek

Nick Karek — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:17 +0000

how do i add the lines
“auth sufficient pam_fprint.so
auth required pam_unix.so nullok_secure” to my /etc/pam.d/common-auth file? Thanks!

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By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:28:07 +0000

I used your method, works great, except for one issue… sudo gives me a segmentation fault at what seemed like random times. A quick search found this…
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg946814.html
Hope is helps out others too.

Drew

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By: rac

rac — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:54:03 +0000

they are in hardy-backports and in interpids repo…
but there is a bug within sudo application
for a howto do a partial config (gdm login and screensaver lock) you can go to https://www.2030.tk/wiki/Install_Ubuntu_8.04_on_Lenovo_3000_N200_with_encrypted_LVM

By: Dalis

Dalis — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:21:02 +0000

The same by me, the reason is simple. http://ppa.launchpad.net/madman2k/ubuntu is no more containing the Hardy packages (nor Gutsy).

Workaround for Gutsy users is to download tarball here:
http://legacy.madman2k.net/files/fprint-packages.tar.

The packages for Hardy I haven’t found yet ;-(

Any idea?

BR,
Dalis

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:34:32 +0000

Aptitude isn’t finding installation candidates for fprint-demo, libpam-fprint, or libfprint, even though I’ve added the correct repository and updated apt. Any ideas?

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By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:13:44 +0000

Thanks for the great guide.