Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 05:38, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader SSH can do pam authentication. Not sure the driver will work in FreeBSD.. There is bioapi in ports though. Oops. looks like ports wins

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Fredrik Lindberg wrote: The driver should work fine locally. But using it remote (via ssh etc) is probably a no-go because verification of the fingerprint records are done by UPEKs driver at the hardware level. The only way as I see it (to even make it possible with UPEKs driver) is to

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Fredrik Lindberg wrote: The only way as I see it (to even make it possible with UPEKs driver) is to have a reader at both the remote machine and the client machine and then capture a BioAPI record at the client machine and have the server verify it. But that

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-05 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, On 05/05/06 06:44, Scott Long wrote: CPU1 is being treated as a hyperthreading core instead of a real core, and is being disabled per our policy on Intel hyperthreading. By 'disabled' I mean that it is started, but it is being excluded from scheduling decisions, and thus is only

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-05 Thread Eric Anderson
Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, On 05/05/06 06:44, Scott Long wrote: CPU1 is being treated as a hyperthreading core instead of a real core, and is being disabled per our policy on Intel hyperthreading. By 'disabled' I mean that it is started, but it is being excluded from scheduling decisions,

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Fredrik Lindberg wrote: But that would sort of defeat the whole purpose of biometric authentication and you could really just use public keys instead which would be a lot faster and easier than scanning your finger at each login. :) Unless you locally encrypt your private key with

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Fredrik Lindberg wrote: But that would sort of defeat the whole purpose of biometric authentication and you could really just use public keys instead which would be a lot faster and easier than scanning your finger at each login. :) Unless you locally encrypt your

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-05-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, Sorry for replying to an old message, but nobody has responded to this particular question, so I give it a try ... Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One unfortunate thing about /bin/sh: [from the sh(1) manpage] Only one of the -e and -n options may be specified.

how to find the physical memory allocated to the kernel

2006-05-05 Thread Bharma Ji
Hi Is there any way to determine the physical memory(not the virtual address space) being allocated to the kernel at any instant? The overall problem is that once I allocate say 512 MB to the kernel (virutal address space) through the config file at compile time, I want to figure out how much of

Re: how to find the physical memory allocated to the kernel

2006-05-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Bharma Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to determine the physical memory(not the virtual address space) being allocated to the kernel at any instant? The overall problem is that once I allocate say 512 MB to the kernel (virutal address space) through the config file at compile

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Fredrik Lindberg wrote: Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Fredrik Lindberg wrote: But that would sort of defeat the whole purpose of biometric authentication and you could really just use public keys instead which would be a lot faster and easier than scanning your finger at each login. :)

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: In that case, it means the matching is a proabilistic distance-computing algorithm. This sux, for any sort of real remote logins. Yes. That's probably an accurate description. I'm by no means an expert in the biometric field, far from it. But in my most humble

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-05 Thread Alain Hebert
In most implementation I saw it was coupled with a rfid card (short distance 1inch (2.5cm)) And for usage at entrance of datacenter - a network of camera. Its not spy proof... but good enought for your average lamer. Fredrik Lindberg wrote: Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: In that

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-05-05 Thread Coleman Kane
Hey all, My webserver went down earlier this week, and I have moved my mail. I am in the arduous process of getting a new replacement. I apologize for the delay however, on the rc.subr colorization project, and hope to have the newest updates available again soon. -- Coleman Kane