http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2/ Those are perfectly possible to use on Linux either by using thinkfinger (IBM/Lenovo) or fprint (HP).

The various PAM modules for those should be installed by default or at least be easily installable and integrate correctly in the default desktop.
GDM, gksudo and the gnome screensaver would have to be modified in order to correctly support fingerprint readers.

That way the user would be able to login either by entering is password as usual or using his fingerprint.

[1667 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2


[47 votes] Solution #2: improve GDM with fingerprint reader option


[10 votes] Solution #3: Fingerprint for Identification not Authorisation


[264 votes] Solution #4: Just use the fedora's solution


[107 votes] Solution #5: Enable it only when warning about security risks


[27 votes] Solution #6: Make it a package file installable like an app.


[35 votes] Solution #7: Make sure there is an option for fingerprint + password authentication.


[12 votes] Solution #8: show captured fingerprint graphically to demonstrate the device adequacy


[2 votes] Solution #9: make sure at you can login with fingerprint via terminal


]]> en-us Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:13:11 +0000 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:19:26 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2/ https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/179923
[needs-packaging] fprint

Fprint now has packages for 32-bit and 64-bit Hardy in this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~madman2k/+archive]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:45:03 +0000 Though the packages entered Debian's new while I was doing the packaging for Ubuntu. I then hoped to see Debian's one soon enough to just sync them but it was too late :(

So we'll have fprint in Intrepid for sure, now let's hope we'll have PAM and gnome integration for those tools too.]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:49:02 +0000 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:59:15 +0000
Then once it detected the fingerprint it displays the "Please use your fingerprint reader" message.

There is no way to enter the password instead of the fingerprint, you basically have to give it a wrong fingerprint to have it asks for the password.]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:16:08 +0000 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:45:43 +0000 Please don't forget kubuntu integration too :)]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:36:01 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:30:38 +0000
tl;dr if this is done, pls give an option of biometric AND passphrase for authentication.

thx.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:16:25 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:57:30 +0000
Thinkfinger itself is dying out and will slowly be replaced by fprint as it improves. As for default configurations, it's a very tricky business. Some people want secure by default (ie biometric and passphrase authentication) and others want to substitute print scans for passwords entirely.

However, you can't easily encrypt data with thinkfinger, for the same reasons you can't unlock the WEP/WPA passwords NetworkManager stores in gnome-keyring.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:56:49 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:04:29 +0000 ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:28:36 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:39:11 +0000
Rationale: As Starbug from Chaos Computer Club, Berlin, Germany outlined in detail on the yearly Chaos Cummunication Congress in 2006 and 2007 there is currently NO safe fingerprint reader device - ALL of them can be exploited easily if you know how. One needs a little tinkering and a few thing from your local hardware store...

A few links:
An article regarding fingerprint sensors in the supermarket
http://www.ccc.de/updates/2007/umsonst-im-supermarkt?language=en

Video-Tutorial - howto forge a fingerprint
ftp://ftp.ccc.de/pub/video/Fingerabdruck_Hack/fingerabdruck.mpg?language=en]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:08:57 +0000
recognition of--
fingerprint
face (flip open the laptop, hit a button, smile, log in)
voice
signature
retina (far off, but when we get there, well, just add it)

and of course, the mainstay of security:
password

(and the power button...)

These need to be able to be used in any permutation.]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:56:50 +0000 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:46:10 +0000
I'm using Kubuntu on my Dell XPS M1330. Fingerprint works for login and console. But in KDM it does not show that you should swipe the finger and you have to go to the username, press enter an then the fingerprint works. So it's kind of a hassle at the moment.. KDM Fix would be nice. Under GDM it works fine]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:39:13 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:00 +0000
Develop for the future i say. Include it by default, and have passphrase + print by default, and make it easy to disable the passphrase.

This way users has only themselves to blame if all goes /b/]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:57:51 +0000
If you want to disable the feature by default, that is fine with me. Give a warning about these concerns even, but the problem that needs to be addressed is that currently it is not possible to use these scanners without bugging out other programs (ie. gksu).]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:04:27 +0000 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:27:59 +0000 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:21:35 +0000
Biometric scanning will give any n00b the idea that his machine is super-safe (it's tech from a sci-fi movie after all and it worked fine there), when in fact the very opposite is true.

rawsausage, spiderpig and hspaans made the point quite clear that fingerprint reading is a moronic idea. If you like low security, go the autologin route. At least you'll know for sure that your machine is a free for all without a false sense of security.

Thermal fingerprint scanners are just as useless as any other form.

Check out the fine links Miyamoto put up there. Essential info IMHO.

Eyescanning or a voice-print make no sense at all from a security standpoint either. Way too complex and therefore way too easy to beat.

Smartcards however deserve support.]]> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:01:37 +0000
What I'd like to see is better integration: right now I still have to type my name, but I'd like to just swipe my finger, have the appropriate thing in pam, via, thinkfinger, figure out if it matches a registered user, and go from there (this is the behavior in Windows, I have heard). Currently, you type your name, then swipe your finger for the password. The thinkfinger site says that they're working on this for the future, which is great.]]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:30:08 +0000 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:55:03 +0000 Thu, 01 May 2008 08:59:22 +0000
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger]]> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:15:46 +0000 http://www.pdfserver.net/fingerprint

...need your test results!]]> Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:56:17 +0000 I really fail to see how this is a security issue. If I was going to do this to a laptop and leave it sitting out in public and walk away, then it seems it would be more likely to just get stolen. Would the thief come back later and ask for my fingerprint? Even if the felon is clever enough to dust for my print it would still be faster to just boot with a live CD.
I would be using it on a desktop at home. There are only three other people who have physical access to it and I *WANT* all three of them to be able to login anyway. At any rate, seems like it would be easier to just steal the frickin' thing or boot up with a live CD than it would to obtain a copy of my finger. If someone cuts off my finger AND steals my computer, I will be more concerned about the finger.]]> Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:58:18 +0000
Look some information onto https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FingerprintAuthentication

And http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Fingerprint

Is there any progress to add this support?]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:26:32 +0000