If a fingerprint is enrolled under fprintd the password window will take a long time to show up

[Fahad Alduraibi]

I started using the finger print reader in my laptop for authentication and noticed that kdesudo will not ask me to swipe my finger and will take a long time before showing me the password dialog. But once I delete my fingerprint enrolment with fprintd it works normal.

sudo will prompt me to swipe and if i don't it will timeout and ask for a password:

# sudo ls
Swipe your right index finger on UPEK TouchStrip
Verification timed out
[sudo] password for xyz:

and it seems to me that kdesudo is doing the same since it waits for me to swipe, if I swipe it will work, but the problem is it doesn't not show any message for that.

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

I have a similar problem. I use Unity, not KDE. I have no trouble fingerprint-authenticating for sudo.
But nearly (but not quite) 100% of the time when my laptop (Thinkpad X230T) wakes from sleep, it will not give me the option to swipe or type for up to a minute after waking. Instead, it seems to be waiting for a fingerprint, but then gives up, claiming "authentication timed out", and then it sits locked up with that message for a minute, before reverting to the password entry option. At that point, I can press enter, whereupon for the first time, the fingerprint reader is activated and I can log in with it.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

kdesudo has moved to KDE infrastructure.

If you feel your bug is still relevant please open a new bug on bugs.kde.org

https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=kdesudo