Thanks Sam & Wouter On 05/03/2021 02:52, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: >> The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop >> environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and >> see if they are interested in recommending this functionality. Unless I'm misunderstanding this - there's already support in Gnome for it. Not sure about KDE (I was trying the latest plasma a couple of weeks ago but didn't think about fingerprints...doh).
It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages installed and then under settings->user you can start registering your prints. > > It could also be added to the laptop task, which would mean it would be > installed by default on all laptops that are installed with debian-installer > > Alternatively, d-i has some hardware detection functionality, to install > the correct drivers for hardware that is found. One could add entries > for supported fingerprint readers to the hardware detection in d-i, and > then install the necessary packages. > That sounds interesting - and smart. So we could detect the USB ID for the reader and if it's a supported device install libfprint and fprintd but not otherwise? Could you point me at where that's done? I'd be interested in having a poke around > The hard part, however, is configuring all this so it works correctly > out of the box, also for users who don't want to use it. > Agreed - and that's what triggered this thread :) I just did install of those two packages and it worked - which was pretty nice. There aren't any hoops that needed jumping through. It's not a big deal not doing this if this is controversial - but fingerprint has been one of those features that I have I've been surprised as to how popular and wanted it's been by linux users. There is something nice about just tapping the reader and being logged in.
