Package: libpam-fprint
Version: 20080330+git-5
Severity: normal
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libpam-fprint does no longer work with sudo. It did in the past (a month
or two ago) but with an sudo update, it stopped working. This was the
old experimental version.
In the meantime I have got the new version installed (in testing) and
the same problem happens. I no longer have fprint configured in pam
manually but automatically with "dpkg-reconfigure libpam-fprint" - this
gives the same behaviour. If I disable unix authentication, sudo just
skips to say that it cannot find a suitable authentication mechanism.
fprint works perfectly well with su, gdm (versions 2 and 3) and console
login, eg.:
mo...@hactar:~$ su - moffe
Scan right index finger on UPEK TouchStrip
mo...@hactar:~$ exit
logout
mo...@hactar:~$ sudo bash
[sudo] password for moffe:
r...@hactar:~#
Notice how sudo goes directly to password authentication while su does
only if fingerprint fails.
This is, of course, just annoying (I know my password :-), but sudo is
probably the authentication I use the most.
I have no idea what the actual problem is, but I am almost sure this
sudo update is the problem:
sudo (1.7.2p6-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream version fixing CVE-2010-1163, closes: #578275, #570737
-- Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:45:47 -0600
Note that I only *assume* this is an fprint problem - feel free to
reassign to sudo if you think it is the problem...
Regards
/Rasmus Bøg Hansen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to da_DK.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libpam-fprint depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libfprint0 20081125git-4 async fingerprint library
of fprin
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-3 Runtime support for the PAM
librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication
Modules l
libpam-fprint recommends no packages.
libpam-fprint suggests no packages.
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Rasmus Bøg Hansen || mo...@zz9.dk
C.F. Møllers Allé 46, 3tv || http://www.zz9.dk
2300 København S ||
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