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