[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#1033289: fprintd: Configure Fingerprint Authentication > Kali Linux KDE - after inserting root password fingerprint chip disconnects

[Andrei Mungiu]

Package: fprintd
Version: 1.94.2-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: mungiuandrei at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,



   * What led up to the situation?
      I checked how to enable the fingerprint authentication functionality on linux, so that I may use it isntead of inserting a password when I loging and hopefully when the terminal asks for the password.

      My fingerprint chip is: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f3:0c4b Elan Microelectronics Corp. ELAN:Fingerprint
      My machine is: Lenovo ThinkPad E15 (Ryzen 7, AMD Radeon Graphics)
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
      1 - installed fprintd & libpam-fprintd (and enabled fingerprint in PAM configuration menu)
      2 - restarted laptop
      3 - opened "Users" menu
      4 - selected user
      5 - clicked on the now available (after fprintd installation) menu button called: "Configure Fingerprint Authentication..."
      6 - clicked "add"
      7 - selected right index finger
      8 - inserted root password
      9 - scanned the finger succesfully
      10- ERROR appears inside the fingerprint app screen: "the device has disconnected"
   * What was the outcome of this action?
      See the above step by step description.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
      I expected the fingerprint to be registered and for Kali Linux to know accept my fingerprint.




-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Kali
Description:	Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release:	2023.1
Codename:	kali-rolling
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-kali5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fprintd depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.14.6-1
ii  libc6                  2.36-8
ii  libfprint-2-2          1:1.94.5-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.74.6-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  122-3+kali1
ii  policykit-1            122-3+kali1

fprintd recommends no packages.

fprintd suggests no packages.

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Subject: fprintd: Configure Fingerprint Authentication > Kali Linux KDE - after inserting root password fingerprint chip disconnects
Package: fprintd
X-Debbugs-Cc: mungiuandrei at gmail.com
Version: 1.94.2-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,



   * What led up to the situation?
      I checked how to enable the fingerprint authentication functionality on linux, so that I may use it isntead of inserting a password when I loging and hopefully when the terminal asks for the password.

      My fingerprint chip is: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f3:0c4b Elan Microelectronics Corp. ELAN:Fingerprint
      My machine is: Lenovo ThinkPad E15 (Ryzen 7, AMD Radeon Graphics)
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
      1 - installed fprintd & libpam-fprintd (and enabled fingerprint in PAM configuration menu)
      2 - restarted laptop
      3 - opened "Users" menu
      4 - selected user
      5 - clicked on the now available (after fprintd installation) menu button called: "Configure Fingerprint Authentication..."
      6 - clicked "add"
      7 - selected right index finger
      8 - inserted root password
      9 - scanned the finger succesfully
      10- ERROR appears inside the fingerprint app screen: "the device has disconnected"
   * What was the outcome of this action?
      See the above step by step description.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
      I expected the fingerprint to be registered and for Kali Linux to know accept my fingerprint.




-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Kali
Description:	Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release:	2023.1
Codename:	kali-rolling
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-kali5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fprintd depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.14.6-1
ii  libc6                  2.36-8
ii  libfprint-2-2          1:1.94.5-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.74.6-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  122-3+kali1
ii  policykit-1            122-3+kali1

fprintd recommends no packages.

fprintd suggests no packages.

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