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pie86

Member

Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 78

thinkfinger and pam

Hi everybody,
first of all thanks to all the guys who worked on arch linux project...it's only 2 days that I run it but I'm already in love with it!:D

The only problem still to be fixed is gdm login with thinkfinger. For the moment I'm able to login swiping my finger or entering my password only in the tty shells. When loggin in with gdm, if I try to enter username and password it crashes and the only way to log in is typing my username and swipe my finger twice!

In addition the login procedure become quite slow when I activate Thinkfinger.

These are my pam.d files:

login

#%PAM-1.0
auth            sufficient      pam_thinkfinger.so
auth            required        pam_securetty.so
auth            requisite       pam_nologin.so
auth            required        pam_unix.so nullok_secure
auth            required        pam_tally.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog
# use this to lockout accounts for 10 minutes after 3 failed attempts
#auth           required        pam_tally.so deny=2 unlock_time=600 onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog
account         required        pam_access.so
account         required        pam_time.so
account         required        pam_unix.so
#password       required        pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 retry=3
#password       required        pam_unix.so md5 shadow use_authtok
session         required        pam_unix.so
session         required        pam_env.so
session         required        pam_motd.so
session         required        pam_limits.so
session         optional        pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard
session         optional        pam_lastlog.so

gdm

auth            sufficient      pam_thinkfinger.so
auth            requisite       pam_nologin.so
auth            required        pam_env.so
auth            required        pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok_secure
auth            optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
account         required        pam_unix.so
session         required        pam_limits.so
session         required        pam_unix.so
session         optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
password        required        pam_unix.so

I tried with use_first_pass insted of try_first_pass but nothing changed.

Is there anybody out there with the right configuration?

thanks in advances
pie

Ibex

Member

Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 135

Re: thinkfinger and pam

I'd like to kick thing topic as I have almost the same problem:

1. If I want to use "su" for getting root, I have to swipe my finger twice.
2. Every program using the fingerprint reader is getting slow; for example, I type "su" and press enter, it needs about 5 to 10 seconds to get the "Password or swipe finger:" message. The same with Slim; I type my username, press enter, and it takes about 5 to 10 seconds until the password field shows up.

ChrisKempson

Member

Registered: 2011-04-30

Posts: 4

Re: thinkfinger and pam

Bit of an old post but see this: http://www.joaoff.com/2009/06/30/making … er-faster/

ewaller

Administrator

From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,775

Re: thinkfinger and pam

I'm going to close this.  If this is a current issue, feel free to open a new thread based on observations using the latest software / hardware configurations.  This keeps things easy to find and separates issues of old stuff from issues with new stuff

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