When i try to store my fingerprint in yast under “Security and Users” → User and Group Management → Plug-Ins → Set the User’s Fingerprint
on my Toshiba Tecra A9, it start to store the Data, but in the process “Storing data…” hangs and it does’t stop, so that i can say OK.
Does someone can help me?
Thanks
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:56:02 +0000, cocolocko wrote:
> When i try to store my fingerprint in yast under “Security and Users” →
> User and Group Management → Plug-Ins → Set the User’s Fingerprint on
> my Toshiba Tecra A9, it start to store the Data, but in the process
> “Storing data…” hangs and it does’t stop, so that i can say OK. Does
> someone can help me?
> Thanks
You’re lucky, when I try to install the fingerprint reader it says pkg
not on server 
I have HP 2710p and I managed to get fingerprint reader working, though without using yast
(It showed me, that fingerprint reader was there, but I was unable to activate it via respective yast-modules).
I have to say, using only fingerprint reader may be not possible, because authentication sometimes just fails.
But maybe you will have more luck.
So I added this Software repository
and followed some of these these and these directions.
If your fingerprint reader is supported by fprint, basically you need to
- Install
fprint_demo
libfprint
pam_fprint
2)Change file /etc/pam.d/common-auth
(order seems to be meaningful)
NB! Be careful with editing this file, because you might lock out yourself.
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_fprint.so
auth required pam_unix.so
- Run fprint_demo from every user (including root if you want) and register fingerprints
P.S. Maybe there is a way to activate your fingerprint reader through yast, but I did not find it.