On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 10:20 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > I logged in via getty and installed libpam-fprintd and could login > > again. > > > > GDM should not make login impossible when fprintd is installed and > > libpam-fprintd is not. Login via password should still be possible > > in > > this case. > > In principle the /etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint PAM stack could probably > fall back to password authentication, but I'm not sure how that would > be achieved. Marco Trevisan would probably know better?
GDM does still allow password login as a fallback, but only when libpam-fprintd is installed. Otherwise login fails before a password prompt is shown. Ansgar
