[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#469048: libpam-thinkfinger: needs special permissions for the uinput device

[Luca Capello]

Package: libpam-thinkfinger
Version: 0.3+rev118.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello,

as explained at [1], non-root programs needing PAM authentication
through ThinkFinger must access the USB device (bug #469043 [2]) as well
as the uinput one.  The latter can be achieved through the following
udev rule:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# the also-needed uinput device
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0660", GROUP="fingerprint"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader_with_ThinkFinger#xscreensaver.2Fgnome-screensaver
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/469043

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (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/bash

Versions of packages libpam-thinkfinger depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-9          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam0g                  0.99.7.1-5     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libthinkfinger0           0.3+rev118.2-2 library for the STMicroelectronics

Versions of packages libpam-thinkfinger recommends:
ii  thinkfinger-tools         0.3+rev118.2-2 utilities for the STMicroelectroni

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