[fprint] PAM

[Daniel Drake]

Andor J Kiss wrote:
> what's the current state of the project?  Is it a "beta"?  Does it have
> PAM support for gksu?

Pre-beta. Nothing properly stabilized.

Your question should actually be "does gksu properly support PAM now?" 
since pam_fprint doesn't do anything wrong in that area. (pam_fprint's 
deficiencies are listed on the pam_fprint homepage, but are unrelated to 
this issue)

It turns out that quite a few applications, gksu included, do not really 
cope well with PAM modules that do something other than 
request-username-then-password.

It's not a pam_fprint bug, but in general PAM doesn't seem like a very 
good fit for biometric authentication.

> I tried it about January and was impressed, but there where some
> problems such as starting synaptic would ask you for a password,
> etc...has that been fixed?

Lots of work is going on behind the scenes which brings us closer to 
decent application integration. But there is still quite a bit more to 
be done.

Daniel