Package: libpam-fprint Version: 20080330+git-5 Severity: important Hi there!
Here the situation, which, together with #469059, renders libpam-fprint simply useless for me. The title of this bug is self-explicative, in the sense that libpam-fprint works with XDM, but in a weird way. First, there is no prompt at all, which means that as soon as you type your username and press ENTER, nothing is shown, not either a greyed-out 'Password' field. Second, because of the first problem, the user does not know how to proceed. The trick is simply to swipe your finger, very carefully, and hope that everything is OK. If it is so, then the user is logged in, while if it is not, again, given that there is no prompt nor error messages, the user is simply lost. Pressing ENTER does not do anything and swiping "false" fingers (i.e. fingers which the user knows there are no fingerprint associated with) does not solve the situation: the 'Password' prompt is never shown. BTW, this is with xdm_1:1.1.10-3. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libpam-fprint depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfprint0 20100820git-1 async fingerprint library of fprin ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l libpam-fprint recommends no packages. libpam-fprint suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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