tags 444059 - patch notfound 444059 0.3~ppa3 reassign 444059 libgksu2-0 found 444059 2.0.5-1 tags 444059 + upstream forwarded 444059 http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19132 thanks
Hello! FYI, I cc:ed the ThinkFinger mailing list, if anyone who replies want to do the same he should manually do it. On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:30:45 +0200, Justin Dugger wrote: > Package: thinkfinger-tools The PAM module has its own package, so you should have reported it to libpam-thinkfinger instead. However, this is not at all a ThinkFinger bug, but a libgksu one, reassigned. > Version: 0.3~ppa3 Please use a version present in Debian or, at least, explain where it comes from (Ubuntu package in this case), corrected. > Severity: important I'm not sure 'important' is the correct severity: while for sure gksudo (not gksu, read below) hanging is a problem, it's not the worst possible scenario (again, read below). > The current prompt cause gksudo and gksu to hang waiting on a finger > scan. gksu-2.0.0-4 never hangs in my case (called as simply as `gksu xterm` or as `gksu -u luca xterm`), while gksudo yes. And FWIW applying the ~/.thinkfinger.bir patches by Christian Neumair [1] doesn't change anything. So, this is *not* a ThinkFinger problem. FWIW, I searched on the net and indeed this bug has already been reported, in Ubuntu [2][3][4] and upstream [5]. Some solutions have been proposed, but no one has been accepted, yet. > This is known to upstream and I have no confidence that it will be > addressed any time soon. Which upstream are you talking about? I'd say that since this is not a ThinkFinger bug, ThinkFinger upstream will never address it [7]. > In the meanwhile, I've got a patch to change the prompt if not > displaying to a tty, often seen on thinkfinger-devel. It works well > on my system. Though it's not obvious that gksudo and friends will > accept a fingerprint, they do. For what concerns ThinkFinger, I won't apply any patch which doesn't belong to the upstream project. AFAIK the PAM implementation in ThinkFinger is standard, so if other programs doesn't work with that it's not a ThinkFinger problem. For that reason, any hack to have those programs working with ThinkFinger doesn't belong to ThinkFinger at all. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/424 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/86843 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/52018 [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/15093 [5] http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19132 [6] except for the possibility to translate the "Password or swipe finger: " sentence, but this is another issue which has nothing to do with this bug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
