Bug 1222281 - Fingerprint login experience is bad/buggy (specific examples included)
Summary: Fingerprint login experience is bad/buggy (specific examples included)
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lightdm
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-17 08:43 UTC by Miro Hrončok
Modified: 2016-07-19 14:08 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 14:08:13 UTC
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Description Miro Hrončok 2015-05-17 08:43:37 UTC
Description of problem:
When logging in into Fedora 22 (and possibly others) with LightDM using the fingerprint reader, the behavior of the login screen is weird and possibly not intended.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.10.4-1.fc22

How reproducible:
I have one laptop with fingerprint reader (X200t) and I can reproduce the bugs every time.

Setup to Reproduce each example:
1. Assign a fingerprint to your user with fprintd-enroll (I've used fprintd-enroll <username> -f right-thumb, but I don't think that is significant)
2. Log out
3. Observe and use the login screen



Example 1:
1. LightDM says "Swipe your finger across the fingerprint reader"
2. Swipe the finger you've enrolled

Actual results:
Nothing happens. You actually have to press Return (or the Log in button, haven't tried that) to log in.

Expected results:
Either log the user in or display a message saying the fingerprint didn't match.

Recorded on video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/34xdmhe5nncpi10/VIDEO0003.mp4?dl=0
00:04 swiping the finger
00:06 pressing Return



Example 2:
1. Enter your password (actually good, wrong or empty password) and press Return (or the Log in button, haven't tried that)

Actual results:
The login screen is not responding, the only possible thing to do is to select other user.

Expected results:
Either log me in, or tell me the password is wrong, or that when I have fingerprint enrolled, I cannot log in with password (in that case, better remove the password input field)


Note:
After swiping bad finger, I can login with password.

Recorded on video with empty password: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3pkwuh4t6rog1l1/VIDEO0004.mp4?dl=0
00:01 pressing Return
00:14 swiping the finger
00:15 pressing Return

Recorded on video with good password: (still uploading, will take some time, will post a comment)




As you can see, the experience is pretty bad. Can we do something about it?

Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2015-05-17 11:29:49 UTC
https://www.dropbox.com/s/shmmjmqsf2po233/VIDEO0005.mp4?dl=0

1:30 Swiping wrong finger

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 14:08:13 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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