Managing Fingerprints With Tf-Tool - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual

7 After you have registered fingerprints for the desired users, click Finish to close
As soon as the user's fingerprint has been successfully registered, the user can choose
to authenticate with either fingerprint or password for the actions and applications listed
in Section D.1, "Supported Applications and Actions "
Currently, YaST does not offer verification or removal of fingerprints, but you can
verify or remove fingerprints from the command line. Refer to
a Fingerprint
With YaST, you can also import fingerprint files (*.bir) already stored somewhere
in your file system. Click Hardware > Fingerprint Reader and select or enter the Direc-
tory with fingerprint files. Click Finish to start the import. The fingerprint files are
copied to /etc/pam_thinkfinger/login.bir, the default directory for the
fingerprint files.
D.3 Managing Fingerprints with
Procedure D.3 Registering a Fingerprint
1 Open a shell and log in as root.
2 To register a fingerprint for a certain user, enter
3 If you also want to use fingerprint authentication for starting YaST or the YaST
As soon as the user's fingerprint has been successfully registered, the user can choose
to authenticate with either fingerprint or password for the actions and applications listed
in Section D.1, "Supported Applications and Actions "
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the administration dialog and to save the changes.
(page 339) for more information.
tf-tool
tf-tool --add-user login
tf-tool prompts the user to swipe his finger until three readable fingerprints
have been gathered.
modules in the GNOME Control Center, you need to register a fingerprint for
root, too.
(page 336).
Verifying or Removing
(page 336).