thinkfinger authentication not working after upgrade to 9.04

[Anthony Borrow]

Binary package hint: thinkfinger-tools

I was able to use my fingerprint reader for logging in to Ubuntu with version 8.10; however, when upgrading to 9.04 it stopped working. I checked the pam.d/common-auth (comments removed):

auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so
auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok_secure
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_deny.so

from the command line I am able to verify that the fingerprint reader is working and that it matches my fingerprint; however, even though the login screen says to type password or use fingerprint, scanning my finger does not work.

[Anthony Borrow (arborrow)]

fyi, I running on a Dell XPS M1330

[trbs (trbs)]

I have a similar problems on a Thinkpad T61.

On the login-screen finger scanning does not seem to work.
And on the command line using sudo it does work but only if i press 'enter' after a valid finger scan. (which is very hard to know since you have no futher feedback)

Also acquiring the finger scanner device is dog slow, it takes 4 to 5 seconds to acquire the device while in Ubuntu 8.10 it was instant.

Needless to say, the fingertools are pretty much useless in terms of usability on Ubuntu 9.04

[trbs (trbs)]

This is most likely the same issue (duplicate) as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/311732