[arch-general] Unlocking the screen through fprintd

Bennett Piater bennett at piater.name
Thu Oct 20 13:25:57 UTC 2016


> Not using fprint, but merely an idea (you have possibly already checked
> that): maybe the PAM-file for the screenlocker has a higher priority for
> passwords than for the fingerprint sensor while the rest has it the
> other way around.
>
> iirc this depends on the ordering of the corresponding modules in the
> respective PAM-files.

Thanks for chiming in!
I had already checked that, in fact I wrote the PAM-files for the screen
lockers myself.

It doesn't matter though, since pressing enter without typing a password
works, as I said in my reply to Ralf.

I'll be doing that from now on :)

Cheers,
Bennett

-- 
GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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