Supported Applications And Actions; Managing Fingerprints With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual

D.1 Supported Applications and
The PAM module pam_thinkfinger supports fingerprint authentication for the
following applications and actions (although you may not be prompted to swipe your
finger in all cases):
• Logging in to GDM/KDM or a login shell
• Unlocking your screen on the GNOME/KDE desktop
• Starting YaST and the YaST modules
• Starting an application with root permission: sudo or gnomesu
• Changing to a different user identity with su or su - username
D.2 Managing Fingerprints with YaST
Procedure D.1 Enabling Fingerprint Authentication
In order to allow biometric authentication for certain users, you need to generally
enable fingerprint support in YaST first.
1 Start YaST and select Hardware > Fingerprint Reader.
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