#Arch fingerprint how to
#Arch fingerprint manual

The easiest way to do this is to, again, launch the fingerprint-gui. Now that the necessary authentication has been added to pam, you may wish the confirm the functionality of your setup.

#Arch fingerprint manual

The Package Maintainer's Manual might provide further information that cannot be obtained by the included manual. Again, if more information or instruction is needed, please refer to the included manual. One may also configure such things as GDM, SDDM, LightDM and the Gnome-Screensaver. This can be done just like the sudo example, of course instead adding an entry to /etc/pam.d/su. In this case, it is still possible to use your fingerprint to authenticate su. Some users may not have (or want to have) sudo installed on their systems. Keep in mind that your 'sudo' file may contain more entries. Open /etc/pam.d/sudo in your text editor and insert the following bold text:

#Arch fingerprint how to

This is because the necessary authentication has not been approved in the appropriate pam.d files.Īs an example of how to set up fingerprint authetication for a given service, we will first start with sudo. Once your fingerprints have been registered, you may notice that in the setup procedure that the 'test' section does not yet work. To start registering your fingerprints with the configuration utility, select the tab 'Finger', select a finger and choose 'next'. You may need to add your user to the scanner group. If your device is not recognized, you might need to reboot in order for udev to set the correct permissions for the device. If you are comfortable without the debug info, you may safely omit the flag. The -d is for debugging, and simply creates a verbose log of events. An agent is only needed when enrolling fingers, not when identifying.Īfter installation, test if your hardware is recognized and correctly working by launching the configuration utility: If your window manager is fully XDG compliant, this agent will autostart. The package includes an authentication agent /lib/fingerprint-gui/fingerprint-polkit-agent. If you are using a window manager, you may need an authentication agent. If you are using GNOME or KDE follow the instructions pacman gives and remove the following files: The package includes an installation guide in HTML at /usr/share/doc/fingerprint-gui/Manual_en.html.