[ltp] Re: Other uses for the fingerprint reader?

[Donald P Kong]

i've been using it to authenticate for "su" for the last few weeks.
works OK. however, the tf-tool doesn't seem to want to let me log in to
my normal user account using the reader.



On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 12:01 +0200,
linux-thinkpad-request@linux-thinkpad.org wrote:

> 
> Message: 1
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
> Date:  Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:48:10 -0400
> Subject: [ltp] Re: Other uses for the fingerprint reader?
> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> 
> 
> on Wed Apr 23 2008, Daniel Castro <castromd-AT-tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> > well not really... i only use it for password authentication.... which
> > as you said is not very safe..... but I'm not that crazy about
> > security either, and swiping your finger is much faster....
> 
> Seriously?  I had the reader activated for a while and got so fed up
> with misreads that I longed for the old days when I could just type in
> my password accurately in a quarter second.  Has the software improved
> recently?
> 
> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> http://boost-consulting.com

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