[fprint] basic access authentication (not PAM!!!)

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 23:02 +0100, Petr Jakeš wrote:
>         > Downloaded the dsd-fprintd-4ea1c48.tar.gz from
>         > https://github.com/dsd/fprintd
>         >
>         > Unfortunatelly, no configure file in the source.
>         >
>         > Am I missing something?
>         
>         
>         http://www.mail-archive.com/fprint@reactivated.net/msg01547.html
>         
>         And read the archives for links to git.
>         
>         Cheers
>  
> The links points to the fprint, not to the fprind..... ????

Oops. My apologies for that.

> I have  found the last source in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libfprint/fprintd/
> 
> Sucessfuly compiled using autogen.sh (it was necessary to install
> gtk-doc-tools and libpolkit-gobject-1-dev first)
> 
> Unfortunatelly the Python script throws the same error:
> 
> =============== script snippet =====================
> import dbus
> bus = dbus.SystemBus()
> 
> scanner =
> bus.get_object("net.reactivated.Fprint","/net/reactivated/Fprint/Device","net.reactivated.Fprint.Device")

You can't do that.

"/net/reactivated/Fprint/Device" isn't the right object path. You need
to get the object path from GetDevices or GetDefaultDevice on the
net.reactivated.Fprint.Manager interface.

So:
import dbus
bus = dbus.SystemBus()

manager =
bus.get_object("net.reactivated.Fprint","/net/reactivated/Fprint/Manager", "net.reactivated.Fprint.Manager")
device = manager.GetDefaultDevice()

scanner =
bus.get_object("net.reactivated.Fprint",device,"net.reactivated.Fprint.Device")

print scanner.ListEnrolledFingers("hadess")

<snip>

> finally, I have tried to ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --sysconfdir=/etc
> 
> but the same result

If the above snippet fails, make sure that the utilities shipped with
fprintd (fprintd-list, etc.) work as expected.

Cheers