[fprint] Storing Prints

Daniel Drake dan at reactivated.net
Mon Jul 14 06:00:20 BST 2008


Heinrich Lee Yu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> About the fp_print_data_save and load functions, do they allow only the 
> saving of fingerprints of one person?

No, the prints are in no way linked to the currently active user of the 
system.

> Im trying to make a time and attendance login using XPCOM and Firefox. 
> Im planning to query all prints stored in MySQL, convert them back to 
> prints, store them in a structure and use it for identification. Is this 
> the best way to do it? I was thinking that saving the prints to the hard 
> drive and syncing with the server once in a while would be better 
> bandwidth-wise.

What you do with the print data blob is completely up to you. libfprint 
doesn't care :)

Daniel



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