Glad I started looking into my KDE startup time issue. H/t to @20000lbs_of_Cheese and @alci for some hints!

It's looking like there's a ~30 second timeout while *something* waits for fingerprint authentication. Nothing's prompting me for it, and I could have sworn I set this up the same on my work laptop. 🤷

Now I need to dig back into my pam/fprintd config.

#kde #KDEPlasma6 #PlasmaLoginManager #SDDM #fprintd #pam #authentication

Fingerprint scanning on Linux seems very unreliable. I have it set up, and it can definitely recognise a fingerprint and authenticate based on that, but there seem to be far more false negatives than I’m used to.

Can’t tell if this is the fault of #fprintd or if the #thinkpad fingerprint reader is just less reliable than the ones in macbooks, or what.

(Seems to occur cross-distro: #debian mainly but was no better in others.)

Подключаем дешёвый USB-сканер отпечатков пальцев Chipsailing CS9711 в Linux

Многие современные ноутбуки оснащаются сканерами отпечатков, но что делать, если ваш рабочий ПК или старый ноутбук такой возможности не имеет? Китайские маркетплейсы предлагают огромное количество USB-сканеров по цене 1000–2000 рублей. Однако при попытке использовать их в Linux пользователя ждёт сюрприз: официальные драйверы отсутствуют, а встроенная поддержка libfprint часто не работает. В этой статье я расскажу, как заставить работать сканер Chipsailing CS9711 (ID 2541:0236) в Ubuntu и других дистрибутивах. Мы скомпилируем форк libfprint с поддержкой этого устройства, настроим демон fprintd и подключим аутентификацию по отпечатку в KDE (а также дадим подсказки для других окружений).

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1003468/

#libfprint #fprintd #Chipsailing_CS9711 #сканер_отпечатков_пальцев_Linux #биометрическая_аутентификация_Linux #USB_fingerprint_reader_Ubuntu #PAM_fingerprint #драйвер_для_CS9711 #отпечаток_пальца_в_Linux #реверсинжиниринг_USB

for this months updates, we are reworking our fingerprint setup entirely. the daemon (Biomd) is now written from scratch and no longer links against QT or libhybris.
while at it, i ended up writing a PAM module and a provider for #Fprintd which means all existing applications that use Fprintd will now work with our service.

one thing i wanted to experiment with was parallel PAM instances for stuff like sudo, so here is how far i got in about an hour

#furilabs #flx1 #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1

How to Enable the Fingerprint Reader in Linux on the #Framework Laptop

This article describes the process for enabling the fingerprint reader on #Linux using the #fprintd service. #linuxmint and a Framework laptop based on the AMD Ryzen platform is used as an example for this guide.

https://cerebral.voyage/how-to-enable-the-fingerprint-reader-in-linux-on-the-framework-laptop/

The current status of #fingerprint scanning via #fprintd in #GNOME & #GDM is so bad.

Fingerprint login doesn't unlock the keyring, so immediately after login, you get dialogs asking you to manually type your password to unlock them.

Might as well just not allow fingerprint login in GDM and only allow fingerprints to dismiss the lockscreen post-login.

If you use #bitwarden on #linux, biometric unlock is available now! I've only been able to get it working on #firefox based browsers, but I think it's supposed to work with #chromium browsers too.

If you have something like #fprintd or #howdy set up, it's probably as simple as checking a couple boxes.