Fingerprint authentication when desktop locked

Nicolae Ghimbovschi xfreebird at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 16:05:43 UTC 2009


Hello,

Last week I successfully configured PAM (in Fedora 10) to provide
fingerprint authentication
(http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Pam_fprint).
Everything works great.

Except when my desktop is locked, to unlock it I'm asked only for my password.
Why it does not use the pam_fprint module for authentication ?

Below is the listing of my system-auth

$ cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth        required      pam_env.so
auth        sufficient    pam_fprint.so
auth        sufficient    pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth        required      pam_deny.so

account     required      pam_unix.so
account     sufficient    pam_localuser.so
account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account     required      pam_permit.so

password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
password    sufficient    pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok
try_first_pass use_authtok
password    required      pam_deny.so

session     optional      pam_keyinit.so revoke
session     required      pam_limits.so
session     [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in
crond quiet use_uid
session     required      pam_unix.so

Thank you !




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