[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#597285: libpam-fprint: does not fully work with XDM

[Luca Capello]

Package: libpam-fprint
Version: 20080330+git-5
Severity: important

Hi there!

Here the situation, which, together with #469059, renders libpam-fprint
simply useless for me.  The title of this bug is self-explicative, in
the sense that libpam-fprint works with XDM, but in a weird way.

First, there is no prompt at all, which means that as soon as you type
your username and press ENTER, nothing is shown, not either a greyed-out
'Password' field.

Second, because of the first problem, the user does not know how to
proceed.  The trick is simply to swipe your finger, very carefully, and
hope that everything is OK.  If it is so, then the user is logged in,
while if it is not, again, given that there is no prompt nor error
messages, the user is simply lost.  Pressing ENTER does not do anything
and swiping "false" fingers (i.e. fingers which the user knows there are
no fingerprint associated with) does not solve the situation: the
'Password' prompt is never shown.

BTW, this is with xdm_1:1.1.10-3.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-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/dash

Versions of packages libpam-fprint depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-6      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfprint0                 20100820git-1 async fingerprint library of fprin
ii  libpam-runtime             1.1.1-6       Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                   1.1.1-6       Pluggable Authentication Modules l

libpam-fprint recommends no packages.

libpam-fprint suggests no packages.

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