Bug 236070

Summary:	gnome-screensaver doesn't work with thinkfinger
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bryan O'Sullivan <bos>
Component:	gnome-screensaver	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	jmccann
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Description Bryan O'Sullivan 2007-04-11 19:40:47 UTC

Description of problem:

I'm using thinkfinger from Extras, and while almost everything (sudo, login,
gdm, etc) is happy to accept a fingerprint swipe instead of a password,
gnome-screensaver insists on just a password.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-screensaver-2.18.0-6.fc7
thinkfinger-0.2.2-4.fc7

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install thinkfinger.
2. Edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth to add a thinkfinger line as the second entry
   in the auth block:
   auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so
  
Actual results:

Everything I've tried except for gnome-screensaver accepts a finger swipe.

Comment 1 Bryan O'Sullivan 2007-04-11 19:41:42 UTC

I'm filing this against gnome-screensaver because googling suggests that
gnome-screensaver is at fault, not thinkfinger.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-04-11 21:52:59 UTC

Actually it is thinkfinger's bug.  PAM modules shouldn't expect to be run with
root privileges.  Jon (the author of gnome-screensaver) wrote some patches to
make thinkfinger work better, though. Have a look at:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/327
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/328

There is an upstream gnome report here with more information here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411293

Anyway, closing since it's a thinkfinger problem that should get fixed upstream.