[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#464963: Bug#464963: thinkfinger-tools: tf-tool is built without PAM support
Luca Capello
luca at pca.it
Wed Mar 5 23:57:34 UTC 2008
tags 464963 + patch
tags 464963 + pending
thanks
Hi Andrew!
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:16:25 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Ah, now I understand: it seems that after Christian Neumair's patchset
> about $HOME/.thinkfinger.bir support was applied [1], upstream (and me
> also) forgot to update the documentation about the new tf-tool behavior.
>
> Christian provided a patch for the README file [2], but nothing is done
> for the manpage yet. I'll work on this in the next days.
Attached.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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--- thinkfinger.orig/docs/tf-tool.1
+++ thinkfinger/docs/tf-tool.1
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
.\" Copyright (C) 2007 Luca Capello <luca at pca.it>
.\"
-.TH THINKFINGER 1 "Feb 1, 2007"
+.TH THINKFINGER 1 "Mar 6, 2008"
.SH NAME
tf-tool \- Utility to acquire and to verify fingerprints
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tf-tool
-.RI [ OPTION ]
+command [options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
ThinkFinger is a driver for the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics
@@ -20,45 +20,35 @@
.B tf-tool
is the utility used to acquire and to verify the fingerprints.
-.SH OPTIONS
+.SH COMMANDS
.TP
.BI \--acquire
Acquire a fingerprint. You will be prompted to swipe your finger. It
needs three successful swipes to get a fingerprint. This fingerprint
-is stored in \fI/tmp/test.bir\fP.
+is stored in \fI~/.thinkfinger.bir\fP.
.TP
.BI \--verify
Verify a fingerprint. \fBtf-tool\fP will read a fingerprint image
-from \fI/tmp/test.bir\fP and compare that with the finger which is being
-swiped.
-.TP
-.BI \--add-user\ "login"
-Acquire a fingerprint for the user identified by login. If this user
-or the bir folder \fI/etc/pam_thinkfinger\fP do not exist, \fBtf-tool\fP
-exits with an error. If the acquiring process is successful, the fingerprint
-is stored in the bir folder as \fI/etc/pam_thinkfinger/login.bir\fP.
-This option is available only when ThinkFinger has been compiled with
-PAM support.
-.TP
-.BI \--verify-user\ "login"
-Verify a fingerprint for the user identified by login. If this user
-or the bir folder \fI/etc/pam_thinkfinger\fP do not exist, \fBtf-tool\fP exits
-with an error.
-This option is available only when ThinkFinger has been compiled with
-PAM support.
+from \fI~/.thinkfinger.bir\fP and compare that with the finger which
+is being swiped.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \--verbose
Add more output messages.
+.TP
+.BI bir_file
+The location where to store the fingerprint, default to
+\fI~/.thinkfinger.bir\fP.
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.TP
-.I /etc/pam_thinkfinger
-The default folder where the fingerprint for login users are stored
+.I ~/.thinkfinger.bir
+The default location where the fingerprint is stored
.TP
-.I /tmp/tmp.bir
-The file used when acquiring or verifying a fingerprint
-.PD
+.I /etc/pam_thinkfinger
+The system-wide folder where the fingerprints for login users are stored
.SH BUGS
Please report bugs to <thinkfinger-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>.
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