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PhantmShado

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Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] ThinkFinger not working with gdm

I just attempted to setup ThinkFinger as described at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thinkfinger  But now whenever I attempt to login at gdm whether by fingerprint or by password I get an authentication error.  Meanwhile, the scan has no effect at all for xscreensaver but it does work for su.

Can anyone please help me getting it to work for gdm?

Last edited by PhantmShado (2007-12-29 22:31:38)

srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: [SOLVED] ThinkFinger not working with gdm

I edited that wiki page because the configuration worked for me :-)
my /etc/pam.d/gdm is pasted below and I have no problem in gdm.

You can try using similar settings.
If you can make it work using some editions please update the wiki page.

#%PAM-1.0
auth            sufficient      pam_thinkfinger.so
auth            requisite       pam_nologin.so
auth            required        pam_env.so
auth            required        pam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure
account         required        pam_unix.so
session         required        pam_limits.so
session         required        pam_unix.so
password        required        pam_unix.so

Last edited by srimalik (2007-12-29 06:39:39)

srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: [SOLVED] ThinkFinger not working with gdm

BTW have you done

tf-tool --add-user <username>

for your user.

PhantmShado

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Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] ThinkFinger not working with gdm

yup, just entering the password didn't work either

Last edited by PhantmShado (2007-12-29 07:19:54)

srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: [SOLVED] ThinkFinger not working with gdm

can you post your /etc/pam.d/gdm

I can try that on my mcahine ( IBM thinkpad T 60)

PhantmShado

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Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] ThinkFinger not working with gdm

erm, no longer an issue, I didn't realize that 'auth            sufficient      pam_thinkfinger.so'  has to be the first line in the file.  Thanks for the help!  Also, while I have you, xscreensaver is completely unresponsive to a fingerprint scan after following the wiki instructions to the detail.  Is there some modification I was supposed to make that I missed?

EDIT:  Never mind, followed the additional instructions over at thinkwiki and it's working now, have added the instructions to the arch wiki.

Last edited by PhantmShado (2007-12-29 19:24:46)