Questions tagged [fingerprint]
a form of biometric identification used to authenticate a user or a hash value calculated to identify a large data set (e.g. PGP key or x.509 certificate) with a unique smaller string
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Is encrypting the login keyring necessary if you have full disk encryption?
For laptops with fingerprint sensors, logging in using fingerprints does not unlock the login keyring because it needs the password (usually set to be the same as the user password). I am considering ...
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fprintd times out
On login, sudo call, or any authentication attempt, the process hangs for a while, then prompts for password. Expected behavior: immediately display fingerprint prompt. Upon investigation, fprintd-...
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Fingerprint refusing to work on Arch?
I'm at my wits end trying to get my fingerprint to work on Arch. I'm using a P14s Gen 5, have enrolled and verified my fingerprint with fprintd successfully. I followed the Wiki to update my /etc/pam....
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How do I get my fingerprint sensor to work with SDDM login in NixOS (Plasma 6)?
My fingerprint sensor works fine, in fact it works quite well except when it comes to SDDM. I use fprintd and systemd. I have looked online for solutions. One involved changing some code in a systemd ...
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UBUNTU - I am not asked for password after logging in with fingerprint
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 with GNOME on a Dell XPS 13. I use the fingerprint as the main identification method, so I don't have to type the password each time I use sudo. The expected behavior is to ...
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Kensington Desktop Fingerprint Key reader use with Ubuntu 23 / Linux Mint 21
This question may have been posed some time ago. However, it appears there were no suitable solutions at the time ... So essentially, I would like to use a Kensington Desktop Fingerprint Key reader ...
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How see fingerprints visually as images?
fprint stores fingerprints in /var/lib/fprint/, how can I view these visually as images? I can't find any docs of fprint, except a few short man pages.
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FFMPEG replace specific place in a video
I have a show on my drive. In that series, there is a intro which starts randomly, one time at 2:00, second at 1:33, etc. However, I have a "custom intro" in a file. I want to replace that ...
