** Package changed: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) => pam (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993240
Title: Fingerprint recognition login and encrypted home don't work together Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If you use fingerprint recognition, while using encrypted home directory, then it just doesn't work. There are 2 issues at hand, here... 1) The .fprint directory, which stores the fingerprint database of a user, is stored in the encrypted home directory. So is not available to the greeter application to recognize prints. This is what causes the "Could not locate any suitable fingerprints matched with available hardware" message on the login prompt. 2) If you decide to copy these files to /home/YourUser from a command line, without the encrypted home there, then you can actually login from the greeter session, with recognized prints. But then a second phenomenon appears. Since you didn't type your password, there is nothing to unlock your home directory encryption key... which means it doesn't get decrypted... which means you get kicked out of your session immediately as no configuration files are available. This is present in all versions of Ubuntu that support encrypted home directories and fingerprint scanners / PAMs. Gilles To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/993240/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
