[Fingerforce-devel] libpam-thinkfinger/libpam-fprint and screensavers

[Daniel Drake]

dererk wrote:
> I was just about to mail team about this exact matter (plus Daniel's
> async libusb, that should be discussed soon), what a bloody casuality :-)

I wouldn't suggest packaging libusb-1.0 yet, because the API is not 
stable. Same applies to libfprint-0.1 and fprintd - this stuff is going 
to be volatile for a while yet, but I'm working on it :)

> I agree w/ you that 'plugdev' meets our need very well, something not
> nice it implies refers to the creation of a new udev rule per scanning device
> supported by thinkfinger/fprint.
> I though it would be quite disgusting at first but, we'll have to upload a
> new libfprint pkg with every new supported gadget anyway, so, it's not a
> big trouble I think.

Most other distributions do it differently: they put all usbfs nodes in 
the "usb" group, and then you just add yourself to the usb group if you 
want such device access. I believe this rule is responsible:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="usb", MODE="664"

You might want to consider that approach as well.

Daniel