fingerprint reader

[Tomasz Czapiewski]

>>> On 06/10/2010 17:17, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there someone with experience of getting a fingerprint-reader on a
>>>> laptop working for identification/password purposes?
>>>>
>>>> I have tried searching around internet but not found anything very
>>>> informative on how to go about this.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Sinclair
>>>>
>>>>

I've been using fingerprint reader built-in in Dell Latitiude D830 
laptop with Kubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 without problems.
It worked for login into console, sudo, KDE, etc.
All I've needed to do was to configure PAM with fingerprint reader 
PAM module and store fingerprints scanned by userspace application.
Now I use fingerprint reader only for booting at BIOS because it was 
quicker for me to write the password instead of properly snapping my 
finger on the reader. It's not the driver/application problem but this 
fingerprint reader is very sensitive (I don't know how's the others) and 
I'm still thinking about disabling it on BIOS, too.

I've used the simple howto at 
http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Pam_fprint

Regards,
Tom