On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:55 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
Pushing off from Ben's email on new user creation [1] I wanted to get some setup for the think finger support that david mentioned [2].
So to start off with some technical questions about think finger, some of these might be obvious to other people besides me:
Can it's presence be detected automatically? And it's (pam) authentication be added automatically?
It's a device it should be able to be looked up in hal.
How many times does it take to train think finger support initially?
3 good finger swipes that it checks against one another.
Can it be (re)trained incrementally? Is this required?
not that I've seen.
What are the security models required for this? Thinkfinger && password? Thinkfinger || password? Just Thinkfinger? My assumption here is that either is accepted.
I tested it on my rawhide laptop and while afaict thinkfinger doesn't care gdm and logins and everything else are unprepared for 2-factor auth. They'll accept a finger swipe or a password but cannot handle it if your pam config requires both.
Can we get the image from think finger for user feedback? Ray mentioned we might be able to fake it, which would probably be good enough.
the image of your fingerprint?
-sv