Doing 3 things fixed this for me.
1. Change the permissions on $HOME/.thinkfinger_bir so that it is owned
by the user, not by root:
$ sudo chown pauljohn .thinkfinger.bir
2. Changing the permissions of the uinput device, which was root:root,
and instead this is needed:
chown root\:plugdev /dev/input/uinput
3. Add the udev rule mentioned in previous message.
Those steps *did* fix the problem on my T61 Lenovo Thinkpad. Now the
finger swipe will unlock me.
I'm using the 0.3+r118 thinkfinger packages from Jon Oberheide's
repository:
$ dpkg -l | grep thinkf
ii libpam-thinkfinger 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4~ppa1
PAM module for the STMicroelectronics finger
ii libthinkfinger0 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4~ppa1
library for the STMicroelectronics fingerpri
ii thinkfinger-tools 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4~ppa1
utilities for the STMicroelectronics fingerp
PJ
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(gutsy) lock screen doesn't support fingerprint readers driven by thinkfinger
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138957
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