[fprint] New project "fingerprintGUI"

[Pavel Herrmann]

Hi,

The problem of UPEK TS lies in the protocol, which is not fully 
disassembled. In other words, the device is capable of imaging and 
identification under windows, but noone (except a few people of UPEK) 
know how to use these capabilities. this device has a coprocessor which 
handles all the work (NBIS is not used) and thus you would have to 
disassemble and understand the communication between the scanner and 
windows drivers to use its full potential.

'good' devices include aes2501 and upeksonly (basically upekts without 
the coprocessor, found in new thinkpads and many others), however any 
imaging-type device should do the trick (say away from aes1610 and 
aes4000, they provide poor quality images)

Adding fingerprint-only login to kdm/gdm would need a lot of work (as  
PAM does not allow this), and I would not recommend to start doing it 
just now, as it would be wise to use fprintd which is not yet stable or 
possibly even finished (it depends on stabilization of libusb-1)

Pavel

Wolfgang Ullrich wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have started a project "fingerprintGUI" that uses "libfprint" and is
> aimed to make usage of fingerprints easier on Linux systems. It is in a
> very early stage (has only started 2 weeks before). I have made a (very
> poor) homepage for it on http://www.darkblue.homeip.net/fingerprint .
> There is a couple of screenshots shown and a snapshot of the sources
> available for download as a tarball.
>
> My work was stopped yesterday because of the following 2 problems:
>
> 1. The UPEC fingerprint reader in my IBM R52 notebook has no driver
> function for "identifying" fingerprints.
>
> Has anyone informations whether this will be available in the near
> future? The only hint I could find so far was in the wiki
> http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Upekts 
> where it reads "this can become a future project". If not, I need to buy
> another fingerprint device capable of indentifying with the Linux
> driver. Can anyone recommend a device?
>
> 2. I have no knowledge about how to "plugin" something like a
> "fingerprint only login" into kdm, gdm etc. Can anyone give some advice
> about where to get more information about this?
>
>