Comment 8 for bug 208668

Deinstalled the fingerprint packages

xtrnaw7@tp61p:~$ dpkg -l | grep finger
ii finger 0.17-11 user information lookup program
ii libpam-thinkfinger 0.3~ppa9 PAM module for the STMicroelectronics fingerpr
ii libthinkfinger0 0.3~ppa9 library for the STMicroelectronics fingerprint
ii thinkfinger-tools 0.3~ppa9 utilities for the STMicroelectronics fingerpri
xtrnaw7@tp61p:~$ sudo dpkg -r libpam-thinkfinger libthinkfinger0 thinkfinger-tools
Password or swipe finger:
(Reading database ... 141457 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libpam-thinkfinger ...
dpkg - warning: while removing libpam-thinkfinger, directory `/etc/pam_thinkfinger' not empty so not removed.
Removing thinkfinger-tools ...
Removing libthinkfinger0 ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
xtrnaw7@tp61p:~$

Now ssh connections with userid/password work again