think finger
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 25 12:58:07 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:55 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
> Pushing off from Ben's email on new user creation [1] I wanted to get
> some setup for the think finger support that david mentioned [2].
>
> So to start off with some technical questions about think finger, some
> of these might be obvious to other people besides me:
>
> Can it's presence be detected automatically? And it's (pam)
> authentication be added automatically?
It's a device it should be able to be looked up in hal.
> How many times does it take to train think finger support initially?
3 good finger swipes that it checks against one another.
> Can it be (re)trained incrementally? Is this required?
not that I've seen.
>
> What are the security models required for this? Thinkfinger &&
> password? Thinkfinger || password? Just Thinkfinger? My assumption
> here is that either is accepted.
I tested it on my rawhide laptop and while afaict thinkfinger doesn't
care gdm and logins and everything else are unprepared for 2-factor
auth. They'll accept a finger swipe or a password but cannot handle it
if your pam config requires both.
> Can we get the image from think finger for user feedback? Ray mentioned
> we might be able to fake it, which would probably be good enough.
the image of your fingerprint?
-sv
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