[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Gaopeng Chen - Sun China
Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint authentication is widely used in many situations. It's a valuable feature to support fingerprint in Solaris. This project is going to provide a complete and

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Giles Turner
Have you considered bioapi? Will libfpr be bioapi compatible? Does OpenSolaris want a Solaris specific library/interface when something already exists? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Gaopeng Chen - Sun China
The BioAPI is intended to provide a high-level generic biometric authentication model. Currently we just support fingerprint in Solaris. We don't have to port such a big model to Solaris since libfpr can handle everything well. And libfpr is designed to be easily wrapped by BioAPI. After BioAPI 2.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Giles Turner
On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The BioAPI is intended to provide a high-level generic biometric authentication model. Currently we just support fingerprint in Solaris. We don't have to port such a big model to Solaris since libfpr can handle everything well. And

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Gaopeng Chen - Sun China
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:24, Giles Turner wrote: > What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is > imported? I have to say "no" before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter since the security services (such as login, xscreensaver, etc) work upon the PAM APIs. pam_fpr

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Giles Turner
On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:24, Giles Turner wrote: > What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is imported? I have to say "no" before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter since the security services (s

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-14 Thread Gaopeng Chen - Sun China
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:52, Giles Turner wrote: > On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:24, Giles Turner wrote: > > > What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is > > > imported? > > > > I have to say "no" befor

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Giles Turner
> > > What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is imported? > > > > I have to say "no" before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter > > since the security services (such as login, xscreensaver, etc) work upon > > the PAM APIs. pam_fpr or pam_bioapi is just a pluggab

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Josh Hurst
On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint authentication is widely used in many situations. It's a valuable feature to support finge

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Giles Turner
Why do you want fingerprint authentication? You can fool these sensors easily with a piece of wax or latex. You'd better write the root password on the backside of the keyboard - that's more secure than fingerprint authentication Exactly why I want to see bioapi in instead of some fingerprint pa

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-15 Thread Gaopeng.Chen
Josh Hurst wrote: On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics technology grows fast. Fingerprint authentication is widely used in many situations. It's a valuable featu