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Idea #4545: Optional authentication methods available

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #2: Fingerprint readers integration.
Written by tbrminsanity the 13 Mar 08 at 21:26. Category: Security. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Someone needs to develop additional authentication methods to help secure your system, inducing:
* fingerprint scanner support
* voice print scanner via microphone
* optical scanner via webcam

The additional methods should not replace the standard keyboard password currently used (just in case your hardware fails and you can't get into your system). Most common devices should be supported (like the digitech fingerprint reader).

A good implementation method would be to have an authenticated method act as a "backdoor" to the current password. So if the image/wave is good then you don't need a password, you are let into the system. You could also use the same security program to authenticate all passwords on your system (internet usernames and passwords, root password, etc...)

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #4545
Written by tbrminsanity the 13 Mar 08 at 21:26.
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gijsterbeek wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 21:48
Dear tbrminsanity

I think it is somewhat improper of you to take someone's idea, vote it down, and then use it to create a new one.

This is so NOT the open source philosophy. But as your idea includes mine, I will vote you up.

But, since I proposed to merge our ideas, the -1 you gave me may come around.

tbrminsanity wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 23:47
I would like to point out that idea #4539 is similar to this idea. However unlike idea #4539 I'm not suggesting that Ubuntu implement untested technology, just include support for existing alternate methods of authentication. I will concede that the idea of using the webcam for authentication is similar to idea #4539 and that is where I got the idea but I don't suggest using the same method as that idea but instead the idea of a eye picture or head picture to compare to (though both ideas will be very hard to implement). The key technology that should be implemented would be first off the findgerprint reader and second the voice recognition.

Eldmannen wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 00:30
USB key.
Smart card.
Security tokens.
Bluetooth from cellphone or PDA.

pro-rsoft wrote on the 4 Sep 08 at 13:43
Fingerprint login on ubuntu already works very well, (I'm using it myself a lot already), and speech recognition seems to be underway:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/speech-recognition
@Eldmannen, those things sound cool but very easy to hack.


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