Setting up fingerprint reader is clunky

[Joonas Saarinen]

There seems to be no easy way to set up a fingerprint reader (in this case, aes2501). According to an older tutorial* there should be an option in the User Accounts window to set it up, but something like that was not present in my 12.04 installation.

Anyway, I ended up doing manually:
1) sudo apt-get install libfprint0 libpam-fprint
2) pam_fprint_enroll
3) sudo pam-auth-update

Not that hard actually, but as the drivers from the fprint project seem to work quite well, having a straightforward graphical configuration would be the icing on the cake.

*) https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-help/session-fingerprint.html

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 13 06:25:15 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
 deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
 indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

fprintd is now installed by default, so we can close this