Bug 498926

That is not an easy thing to do, since the keyring is locked with your password. If you don't enter your password, it is not available for unlocking the keyring.
Same thing with automatic login.

Uh ok, I guess that GNOME would need to implement unlocking the keyring via fingerprint in order to enable such support. AFAIK the current fingerprint authentication is implemented around PAM and PAM is not used for keyrings right?

Presumably the keyring is *encrypted* with your password and therefore it is impossible to unlock the keyring by use of a fingerprint device. To make this work you'd have to forgo encryption of the keyring, which is probably not a great idea.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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This is definitely still a problem under Fedora 12, but I do not have the power to update the "Version" field accordingly.  Would someone please do that?  Thanks!

This is still problem under Fedora 13, can Version field be updated again? Shouldn't status of this bug be ASSIGNED instead of NEW?

Patryk, I have just set the version to 13.

The problem is still there in Fedora 14

It seems to be easy for Ubuntu, why not for Fedora: http://johnny.chadda.se/article/unlock-the-gnome-keyring-upon-login/

Apologies, my mistake. Should have been reading carefully before posting. Please ignore previous comment :(

Same in F15 (all updates done).

This would be a useful feature but is sort of "hard" to implement.  it would probably involve using the fingerprint hash as a key.

Honestly, this would be better as upstream pam_fprint RFE.

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The issue is still there in Fedora 17!

Surprisingly, this issue was never directly mentioned as a "to-do" thing: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Fingerprint

But it seems "natural" that it should work that way - fingerprint logon's point is to avoid entering password. Instead, it introduces more steps: now not only you have to swipe the finger, but also enter the password for the keyring. I know the second one is optional, but it does not change the fact that fingerprint login provides a crippled session. It works in Ubuntu, but not in the latest Rawhide. This is unusual.

But we all know that. What matters is that the implementation might introduce a temporary and unwanted mess. But I think that this is the feature that should find its way to Fedora. Some day, at least. Is there a way to... "reconsider" the WONTFIX status?

It's an issue we're acutely aware of and want to fix at some point, but it's not trivial. Just because this bug report is closed, doesn't mean the issue is won't eventually be dealt with (we were even talking about it this last weekend at the gnome boston summit)

Is there any updates? This is still anoying with F19 and all updates done. It defines the fingerprint login as more complex and useless considering on the first launch of any keyring process you must type the password...