Support login with finger prints

[Ezra Sharp]

A user should be able to setup their finger prints to login where a scanner is present in hardware.

[Marvin Beckers (embik)]

Is this currently supported by the login manager respectively the lightdm theme? I don't think so and therefore this affects them as well.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

I'm not intimately familiar with how logging in with a fingerprint works, but I know it's been problematic even when the hardware support is there (like in a few of our System76 laptops). As @embik mentioned, it likely has to do with the login flow more than the user plug itself.

[Ezra Sharp (nicekiwi)]

Traditionally however, on windows and Linux and even iOS the finger prints
and accessing and changing them is directly tired to the user account and
the same interface where those are changed.
I'm not intimately familiar with how logging in with a fingerprint
works, but I know it's been problematic even when the hardware support
is there (like in a few of our System76 laptops). As @embik mentioned,
it likely has to do with the login flow more than the user plug itself.

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[Marvin Beckers (embik)]

We don't disagree with you, but before it can be implemented in the user accounts plug it needs to be supported by both hardware and the pantheon greeter. That's all we said.

[Ezra Sharp (nicekiwi)]

Ah, OK. I don't disagree either then. :)
On 8/01/2015 10:35 am, "Marvin Beckers" <email address hidden> wrote:

> We don't disagree with you, but before it can be implemented in the user
> accounts plug it needs to be supported by both hardware and the pantheon
> greeter. That's all we said.
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