Fingerprint login not mentioned by GNOME accounts despite fprintd and fprintd-pam being installed

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Hi,

On Fedora I didn’t need to do any configuration for GNOME to register my fingerprint reader and allow me to use it to authenticate. On openSUSE Tumbleweed it doesn’t. This is what I see in user accounts on Tumbleweed:

https://i.imgur.com/sLCvD3I.png

On Fedora fingerprint login is mentioned here. I have installed all fingerprint-related packages that came up with:


zypper se fprint

and the results were:


Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name               | Summary                                                   | Type   
---+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+--------
i+ | fprintd            | D-Bus service for Fingerprint reader access               | package
   | fprintd-devel      | Development files for fprintd                             | package
i  | fprintd-lang       | Translations for package fprintd                          | package
i+ | fprintd-pam        | PAM module for fingerprint authentication                 | package
   | fprintd-pam-32bit  | PAM module for fingerprint authentication                 | package
   | libfprint-devel    | Library for fingerprint reader support (developer files)  | package
   | libfprint-examples | Library for fingerprint reader support (example programs) | package
i  | libfprint0         | Library for fingerprint reader support                    | package
   | libfprint0-32bit   | Library for fingerprint reader support                    | package

I didn’t install the -32bit package or -devel, -examples as unless I am mistaken I do not think I need them and I don’t feel the need to waste disk space today.

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

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lsusb gives:


Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 064e:9301 Suyin Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21fb Broadcom Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 062a:4101 MosArt Semiconductor Corp. Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 138a:0050 Validity Sensors, Inc. Swipe Fingerprint Sensor
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

if it helps.

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I found https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_fingerprint_authentication but it is outdated ThinkFinger is no longer in the repos. Tried manually compiling and installing it but a YaST modules for it were required but weren’t in the repos.