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

By: debian on bullman v-klasse 8 | Jitu

debian on bullman v-klasse 8 | Jitu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:27:04 +0000

[...] http://www.krizka.net/2008/03/28/how-to-setup-fprint-for-fingerprint-authentication-on-ubuntu/ (Installation manual for ubuntu) [...]

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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Mon, 19 May 2008 23:17:26 +0000

[...] to install the fingerprint reader driver due to its’ unstable nature. The guide provided by Karol Krizka solved the problem of installing this driver of which I have spent about an hour researching with [...]

By: Paul

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

Thanks for the great guide.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:23:46 +0000

Great Posts - thanks a lot. Fprint works fine for me on my Thinkpad X61t with Ubuntu Hardy.

But there are two issues, which I’m not so happy about:

- I have to enter my username to login - so I have to swivel the screen to keyboard mode. Is there a way to setup a standard username?

- During login, the username box will be deactivated and the system is waiting for the fingerprint. Without any message. A message would be great - at least, which fingerprint the system is expecting. Right at the moment I only have stored one fingerprint, but I like to add all fingers.

Do you have any ideas or solutions?

Cheers,
Martin