Bug 746055 - Only able to use sudo with fingerprint
Summary: Only able to use sudo with fingerprint
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fprintd
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-13 18:41 UTC by Erinn Looney-Triggs
Modified: 2011-10-13 22:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-10-13 22:51:49 UTC
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Description Erinn Looney-Triggs 2011-10-13 18:41:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
The sudo fingerprint thing is really slick. I really like it. However, there should be some way to get to just a normal password prompt for sudo. So after enrolling my fingerprint, I am now forced to use my fingerprint every time for sudo regardless of how I logged in (fingerprint or password), the issue is that I dock my system and well the fingerprint reader is in the closed system and I have no desktop equivalent. I have tried ctl-c etc, to no avail. This may well just be a limitation that can't be gotten around or it may be a PAM problem or a sudo issue etc. But I can't select multiple components so there we are.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fprintd-0.2.0-3.fc15.x86_64
pam-1.1.4-4.fc16.x86_64
sudo-1.8.1p2-2.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Enroll you fingerprint, try to get around sudo prompting you for said fingerprint.
Comment 1 Erinn Looney-Triggs 2011-10-13 22:51:49 UTC 
Sorry for the noise, after a default timeout it drops you to the password prompt. Closing.
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