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dominik.w.90

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Registered: 2016-11-29

Posts: 2

Cinnamon-screensaver with fprintd fingerprint does not work.

I already have in the file

/etc/pam.d/cinnamon-screensaver

Following entry

auth      sufficient pam_fprintd.so

Otherwise the fingerprint authentication works very well, only the cinnamon-screensaver only asks for the password.

Does somebody has any idea?
Thanks in advance.

youngian

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Registered: 2012-08-06

Posts: 26

Re: Cinnamon-screensaver with fprintd fingerprint does not work.

I am having this issue too (my laptop is technically on Manjaro not Arch, but potato po-tah-to). Same setup as you, and it worked fine with cinnamon-screensaver until an upgrade sometime in the past few weeks. Now it no longer works.

koassim

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Registered: 2015-02-22

Posts: 7

Re: Cinnamon-screensaver with fprintd fingerprint does not work.

I have the same problem trying to use fingerprint-gui. Looking through journalctl there seems to be no entry relevant to fingerprint-gui being called, even if the parameter -d is passed for debugging output. It seems to me that the problem might have to do with pam handling in cinnamon-screensaver.

youngian

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Registered: 2012-08-06

Posts: 26

Re: Cinnamon-screensaver with fprintd fingerprint does not work.

This issue has been fixed in the latest release of cinnamon-screensaver (see this commit).