[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#444059: thinkfinger-tools: Prompt breaks gksu / gksudo

[Justin Dugger]

Package: thinkfinger-tools
Version: 0.3~ppa3
Severity: important
Tags: patch

The current prompt cause gksudo and gksu to hang waiting on a finger
scan. This is known to upstream and I have no confidence that it will
be addressed any time soon.

In the meanwhile, I've got a patch to change the prompt if not
displaying to a tty, often seen on thinkfinger-devel. It works well on
my system. Though it's not obvious that gksudo and friends will accept
a fingerprint, they do.

Given that the patch is a hack around other software's bugs, a patch
system might be in order to remove the patch should gksudo fix itself.  I've got
no preference for dpatch, it was merely the one I figured out how to use.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers gutsy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500,
'gutsy-proposed'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-12-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages thinkfinger-tools depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-1ubuntu7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libthinkfinger0           0.3~ppa3       library for the STMicroelectronics
ii  libusb-0.1-4              2:0.1.12-7     userspace USB programming library

thinkfinger-tools recommends no packages.

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