[fprint] fprintd dbus service file
Bastien Nocera
hadess at hadess.net
Wed Dec 10 00:23:08 GMT 2008
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:44 +0100, Linus Färnstrand wrote:
> I don't get why the storing and handling of fingerprints should be
> done in the daemon?
> I extended the signal EnrollStatus to return the print data.
> Now to the hard task. to implement the IdentifyStart/Stop methods and
> sending all the print data over dbus and reconstructing the print data
> structs.
>
> Don't you think this would be a much nicer solution?
Certainly not. That would mean that every application has to reimplement
reading and writing to the database and, more disturbingly, that user
applications can have access to all the fingerprint data.
This is just about as good as having all the passwords for the system on
a post-it note attached to the monitor.
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