fprintd

fingerprint scanning functionality over D-Bus

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  1. Package version
    fprintd-0.8.1p3
  2. Maintainer
    Antoine Jacoutot

fprintd is a daemon to offer libfprint functionality over D-Bus.

API use cases:

- User wants to use the fingerprint reader, and enroll
his fingerprints, or remove some fingerprints from the database

- Administrator wants to enroll fingerprints for a particular user,
or remove fingerprints for a particular user

- Laptop/desktop authentication:
* Check for fingerprint devices
* Check whether a particular user has any fingerprints enrolled
* Verify a fingerprint for a particular user, or, if the device
supports it, verify that the fingerprint matches against
any of the fingerprints enrolled

- Point Of Sale authentication (in a bar, the fingerprint reader is
used to see who accesses a particular point of sale/till, in place
of PIN code authentication and/or tokens)
* Given a list of users, verify which one has scanned their finger

  • STEM->=0.41.1p0:textproc/intltool
  • devel/gmake
  • STEM->=5.4.0:archivers/xz

  • x11/dbus,-suid