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

[Luca Capello]

tags 464963 + patch
tags 464963 + pending
thanks

Hi Andrew!

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:16:25 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Ah, now I understand: it seems that after Christian Neumair's patchset
> about $HOME/.thinkfinger.bir support was applied [1], upstream (and me
> also) forgot to update the documentation about the new tf-tool behavior.
>
> Christian provided a patch for the README file [2], but nothing is done
> for the manpage yet.  I'll work on this in the next days.

Attached.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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--- thinkfinger.orig/docs/tf-tool.1
+++ thinkfinger/docs/tf-tool.1
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 .\" Copyright (C) 2007 Luca Capello <luca at pca.it>
 .\"
 
-.TH THINKFINGER 1 "Feb 1, 2007"
+.TH THINKFINGER 1 "Mar 6, 2008"
 
 .SH NAME
 tf-tool \- Utility to acquire and to verify fingerprints
 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B tf-tool
-.RI [ OPTION ]
+command [options]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 ThinkFinger is a driver for the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics
@@ -20,45 +20,35 @@
 .B tf-tool
 is the utility used to acquire and to verify the fingerprints.
 
-.SH OPTIONS
+.SH COMMANDS
 .TP
 .BI \--acquire
 Acquire a fingerprint.  You will be prompted to swipe your finger.  It
 needs three successful swipes to get a fingerprint.  This fingerprint
-is stored in \fI/tmp/test.bir\fP.
+is stored in \fI~/.thinkfinger.bir\fP.
 .TP
 .BI \--verify
 Verify a fingerprint.  \fBtf-tool\fP will read a fingerprint image
-from \fI/tmp/test.bir\fP and compare that with the finger which is being
-swiped.
-.TP
-.BI \--add-user\ "login"
-Acquire a fingerprint for the user identified by login.  If this user
-or the bir folder \fI/etc/pam_thinkfinger\fP do not exist, \fBtf-tool\fP
-exits with an error.  If the acquiring process is successful, the fingerprint
-is stored in the bir folder as \fI/etc/pam_thinkfinger/login.bir\fP.
-This option is available only when ThinkFinger has been compiled with
-PAM support.
-.TP
-.BI \--verify-user\ "login"
-Verify a fingerprint for the user identified by login.  If this user
-or the bir folder \fI/etc/pam_thinkfinger\fP do not exist, \fBtf-tool\fP exits
-with an error.
-This option is available only when ThinkFinger has been compiled with
-PAM support.
+from \fI~/.thinkfinger.bir\fP and compare that with the finger which
+is being swiped.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BI \--verbose
 Add more output messages.
+.TP
+.BI bir_file
+The location where to store the fingerprint, default to
+\fI~/.thinkfinger.bir\fP.
 
 .SH FILES
 .PD 0
 .TP
-.I /etc/pam_thinkfinger
-The default folder where the fingerprint for login users are stored
+.I ~/.thinkfinger.bir
+The default location where the fingerprint is stored
 .TP
-.I /tmp/tmp.bir
-The file used when acquiring or verifying a fingerprint
-.PD
+.I /etc/pam_thinkfinger
+The system-wide folder where the fingerprints for login users are stored
 
 .SH BUGS
 Please report bugs to <thinkfinger-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>.
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