Saturday, June 23, 2007

ThinkFinger Installation on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

My PC (Lenovo T60) has a built in finger scan reader below the down arrow :


I want to be able to login using my fingerprint - so below what I did :

Download latest ThinkFinger (latest version was 0.3) to the Desktop :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=179573

# Install Prerequisite
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool libusb-dev libpam0g-dev

# Extract
tar -xvf thinkfinger-0.3.tar.gz
cd thinkfinger-0.3
sudo mkdir /etc/pam_thinkfinger
./configure --with-securedir=/lib/security --with-birdir=/etc/pam_thinkfinger
make
sudo make install


#Acquire the fingerprint with the command
sudo tf-tool --acquire

#Test your fingerprint
sudo tf-tool --verify
Reference :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger?highlight=%28thinkfinger%29

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