[Thinkfinger-devel] Thinkfinger Ubuntu howto

[Lionel Dricot]

Hello,

I've just wrote a Thinkfinger Ubuntu howto :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger

This is largely inspired by the README and INSTALL file but I thought it was easier for an Ubuntu user to have such an howto.

It might be good to put a link to this howto in the "documentation" part of the website, if you want.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your work ! I'm really enjoying my fingerprint reader :-)

(I only have to get rid of this bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/86843 )


Lionel (aka Ploum)

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[Timo Hoenig]

Hi Lionel,

Post by Lionel Dricot
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger

Thanks for the heads-up! Nice to see Ubuntu picking up ThinkFinger,
too.

Post by Lionel Dricot
This is largely inspired by the README and INSTALL file but I thought
it was easier for an Ubuntu user to have such an howto.
It might be good to put a link to this howto in the "documentation"
part of the website, if you want.

Yes, I'm still looking for some free time to add links on the project
page for distro specific information and packages.

Post by Lionel Dricot
Anyway, thanks a lot for your work ! I'm really enjoying my
fingerprint reader :-)

;-)

Thanks,

Timo

[Stephan Berberig]

Hi Lionel,

I just read your howto. There's a small mistake: it's not true that
gnome-screensaver doesn't use PAM. But the implementation is buggy.

There's no solution at the moment.

Best regards,
Stephan

Post by Lionel Dricot
Hello,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger
This is largely inspired by the README and INSTALL file but I thought it was easier for an Ubuntu user to have such an howto.
It might be good to put a link to this howto in the "documentation" part of the website, if you want.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your work ! I'm really enjoying my fingerprint reader :-)
(I only have to get rid of this bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/86843 )
Lionel (aka Ploum)
PS : please CC me if your reply, I'm not subscribed to the list.
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[William Jon McCann]

Post by Timo Hoenig
Hi Lionel,
I just read your howto. There's a small mistake: it's not true that
gnome-screensaver doesn't use PAM. But the implementation is buggy.
There's no solution at the moment.

We are pretty sure the implementation is not buggy. If you have
specific information please attach it to:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411293

So far, it looks like a simple permission problem and there isn't much
gnome-screensaver can do about it directly.

Thanks for working on this BTW!

Jon

[Stephan Berberig]

Hi Jon,

it was never my intention to offend you.

Could you please explain the permissions issue in detail? I (logged in
as a user) have full access to the USB device. To achieve that, I added
a new system group, added my user to that group, changed the udev rule
so that all USB devices are in that group.

What else needs to be done?

Thanks for helping.

Best regards,
Stephan

Post by William Jon McCann

Post by Timo Hoenig
Hi Lionel,
I just read your howto. There's a small mistake: it's not true that
gnome-screensaver doesn't use PAM. But the implementation is buggy.
There's no solution at the moment.

We are pretty sure the implementation is not buggy. If you have
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411293
So far, it looks like a simple permission problem and there isn't much
gnome-screensaver can do about it directly.
Thanks for working on this BTW!
Jon
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