[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#464963: Bug#464963: thinkfinger-tools: tf-tool is built without PAM support

[Luca Capello]

Hi Andrew!

I'm really sorry for the delay.

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:21:10 +0100, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> tf-tool is built without PAM support, so it cannot be used to allow
> login security using PAM. Since this is a central reason for using the
> fingerprint reader, it ought to be available.

Can you elaborate more on what you mean by "tf-tool is built without PAM
support"?  tf-tool has nothing to do with PAM: it's an utility to
acquire/verify fingerprints.

I guess you ignore the existence of libpam-thinkfinger, the PAM module
allowing fingerprint login through ThinkFinger.

OTOH, if you're referring to the fact that tf-tool cannot be launched by
a non-root user, I already fixed the permission problems for the USB
device (SVN r83, bug #469043 [2]) and for the uinput device (SVN r84,
bug #469048 [3]).  These fixes, together with the move of tf-tool from
/usr/sbin to /usr/bin [1], will be present in the next Debian version.

If you don't reply to this mail in one week, I'll close the bug.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87wsojwett.fsf%40gismo.pca.it%3e