[fprint] Problems with pam_fprint

João Miguel Roque miguel at jmroque.net
Thu Nov 22 23:06:37 GMT 2007


Yes, it works as root.

I will ask help on Fedora this time, but if you know how to do it in
your linux box, you could post the info as it should not be different
and there is also other user of the mailing list with the same problem.

Thanks,
Miguel


Qui, 2007-11-22 às 22:53 +0000, Daniel Drake escreveu:
> João Miguel Roque wrote:
> > It gives the following message:
> > 
> > aes1610:error [dev_init] could not claim interface 0
> > fp:error [fp_dev_open] device initialisation failed, driver=aes1610
> > 
> > lsusb gives the following info for my reader:
> > 
> > Bus 007 Device 003: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc. 
> 
> It might work as root. If so, it means that permissions on usbfs USB 
> device nodes are not set up to allow user access. I would again suggest 
> following this up with Fedora because if you do not have this access 
> then there is a lot of other stuff that would break (such as scanning 
> through SANE). Sorry that I can't be of more help on the fedora side of 
> things.
> 
> Daniel



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