[fprint] pam_fprint

[Vasily Khoruzhick]

On Friday 07 December 2007 12:08:48 Damian Myerscough wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was recently installed the pam_fprint module which works great.
> However I did encounter on SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 and SP1 that
> when you login via GDM it doesn't work as expected.
>
> Here what I do:
>
> Enter my username (then the username box turns grey and waits for my
> finger to be scanned).
> When I scan my fingerprint I am asked to scan XYZ finger but I just have
> to click OK because I have done it.
>
> Anyways what I wanted to let you know is that when you comment out the
> "Scan XYZ" dialog box you can login similar to the above but without
> being prompted to scan you're finger again.

It's GDM/KDM/Any other login manager issue, not pam_fprint.

User should be notified that he(she) should swipe finger, or place it at 
sensor, etc. And pam_fprint does it. gdm/kdm displays this notify as message 
box, but neither kdm nor gdm hide this box when swipe/placement was done.

Regards
Vasily