On Sa, 2006-06-03 at 15:44 +0200, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > Yesterday, when I had a friend of mine try the new Ubuntu, I had an > unpleasant suprise: he laughed at me when he saw me type the password > by hand. It seems he has been using a fingerprint reader under > Windows, for more than a year now. > > I realized this is a feature that he will not do without, now he has > gotten used to it. > > It seems the advantage under GNU/Linux would be even greater, since > GNU/Linux requires you to type passwords more often than Windows. > > Is there some way to use a fingerprint reader to type passwords with > Gnome? (My guess is it isn't, and that some work would be needed at > the level of gksu and gdm.) The fingerprint readers in the Thinkpad X41 series do work with Linux and work with the pam-bio-api plugin. I tested this both with gdm and gksu and it works (not perfectly but, well, it wors). I only didn't test it with gnome keyring (which will be an important thing too). > I have no real point however, I only wished to inform you about this. > Cheers Regards, Sven
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