Re: Fingerprint Scanner for GDM Login

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:08:13PM -0500, Tony Freeman wrote:
> I'd like to be able to use my fingerprint to log into my linux
> machine.  
>
> Because GDM is the login manager for our favorite desktop,

IMHO what should be done in the first place, is a PAM
authentication module, so that this mechanism can be used
universally (don't think like people from the other desktop ;-)
I don't know whether it's been already tried/implemented,
but a PAM list would be a better place to ask anyway.

Yeti


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