Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Mark Pearson
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 intere

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start Mark> registering your prints. Right, and the desktop maintainers could choose to make their desktop meta packages dep

Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Wouter Verhelst writes: > 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

Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 04:55:21PM +0100, William Bonnet wrote: > Hi, > > > Yes, and we should do that in a way so that our users are not subject to > > those attacks by default, but can still log in to their system by using > > a biometric sensor, if the laptop provides that feature and they want

Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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. It could also be added to th