Description of problem: I've just made an installation of a very basic F11 on a 32-bit x86 board. There is no graphics or keyboard hardware so no desktop packages are installed, except where a dependency requires them. There's also no fingerprint reader, so the fprint packages aren't installed. I see this in /var/log/secure when I log in: Aug 18 16:31:47 gatekeeper login: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_fprintd .so): /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Aug 18 16:31:47 gatekeeper login: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_fp rintd.so Aug 18 16:31:52 gatekeeper login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for us er root by (uid=0) Aug 18 16:31:52 gatekeeper login: DIALUP AT ttyS0 BY root Aug 18 16:31:52 gatekeeper login: ROOT LOGIN ON ttyS0 If I run authconfig --updateall, I see: authconfig: Authentication module /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so is missing. Authentication process will not work correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-1.0.91-6.fc11.i586 authconfig-5.4.10-1.fc11.i586 How reproducible: I see the error message crop up in the secure log every time I try to log in, or every time someone tries to crack my SSH daemon. /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so is not present because fprintd-pam is not installed; it is, however, still referenced in /etc/pam.d/ [root@gatekeeper ~]# grep -r fprintd /etc/pam.d /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth:auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so /etc/pam.d/system-auth:auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac:auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth-ac:auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install core Fedora 2. Boot 3. Log in 4. Remove fprintd-pam 5. Log in again 6. Look in /var/log/secure Actual results: /lib/security/pam_fprintd.so is absent, even though it is referenced. Expected results: Either pam_fprintd.so should be installed, or it should not be referenced.
Use authconfig --disablefingerprint --update to remove it from the configuration. Anaconda by default enables it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 505266 ***