Alexander Danilov wrote:
> Thanks to the author for fprint, it was really long waiting software. I 
> install libfprint and 
> pam_fprint on my HP-Compaq nc6400 (Debian etch) with AuthenTec 2501 
> fingerprint reader.
> I can say - it works.
> But there are some notes, the patch for old imagemagick was _very_ useful, 
> enroll and verify works,
> but need some documentation about how to setup usb device (set right 
> permission) with udev 

Please could you follow up with your distro about both of these?
Firstly, the imagemagick being shipped in debian is more than 2 years old.
Secondly, your distro should handle USB device permissions for you, 
otherwise there is a whole range of hardware beyond fingerprint readers 
that will not work -- one example being scanners through SANE.

> without it, because running enroll using sudo is not a good idea.

Agreed, I've never suggested anyone do this.

On Gentoo the process is as follows: for any user you wish to have 
generic access to USB devices like this, put them in the "usb" group. 
That's it -- nothing more. Then everything "just works" out of the box. 
I would think the same is true for other distributions too.

> The second note about pam, i have 
> seen pam configuration for version 0.99 at wiki page, but it doesn't work for 
> my case, my pam is 
> v0.79. I try to setup pam to use password or fingerprint and check it using 
> ssh to localhost, at the
> first ssh ask me for password, and then wait for fingerprint(valid or 
> invalid), and let me to log in 
> only if I input right password, not matter of what finger I use for login.

If you do succeed, please let me know and I will document it. Or, even 
better, choose a username for the wiki and I'll give you an account and 
you can document it yourself.

Sorry that I can't be more help here -- I have almost zero experience 
with PAM, I installed it for the first time approximately 15 minutes 
before trying to write pam_fprint :)

> Small wish: it will be good to have some options to turn on debug messages, 
> as a good example I can
> recommend to look at pam_usb.

Fancy writing a patch for this? With so much to do on this young 
project, these kind of things take low priority for me.

Thanks for the feedback!
Daniel
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