Setting up fingerprint reader is clunky
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
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-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_
activity-
deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2
fprintd is now installed by default, so we can close this