https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494168
--- Comment #5 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Marco G from comment #4) > Theoretical there are several aproaches to this: > > Let's say we initiated a gui auth dialog and the fingerprint is active > waiting now for the user to auth via fingerprint because this is firt pam > rule. The Dialog still shows the password prompt but actually for now (1. > PAM) only care about fingerprint. > > 1. if the user still decide to enter the password the OK button or ENTER if > pass !empty should initiate a cancle for the still pending 1. pam rule > fingerprintd wait and then we have password as fallback > > 2. alternative redesign the dialog that we dont even display the password > prompt but only a message waiting for fingerprint and a cancle option (which > is not present there currently) if cancle we present the classical auth > dialog > > 3. alternative allow a setting somewhere in polkit to let the user set a own > timout for the fingerprint to fail. For me I would set this to something as > low as 5s so I still have a reasonable amount of time to validate via finger > or fallback to to password. > > > > Why all this? > > Well some of us work in the field as technician or whatever field IT. You > sometimes have to wear protective gloves and with them it is impossible to > continue on the auth diagloge currently because you cannot even trigger a > false fingerprint. Only option is to disble fingerprint auth in pam right > now. A short timeout or a sane fallback methode would circumvent this. > Unfortunately just hitting ESC is not a solution because it will close the > dialog and end the auth process with false. Having ESC not close the full > dialog but just skip to the next pam step would also an option. But I am not > a core developer so I can't judge if this is even possible. > > > Thanks This problem has already been solved for the lock screen, doing something similar to solution 1l; just need to apply the same solution for this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
