Fingerprint Reader

Many Laptops come with an integrated fingerprint reader which can be used for authentication instead of a password. The fprint project is the most advanced approach to provide a solution for integrating fingerprint readers in Linux - other solutions such as thinkfinger are mostly outdated and don't provide such a general approach as fprint does.

fprint consists of several components:
 * : The basic library which does all the dirty work like talking to all the different fingerprint readers, providing an abstracted interface etc.
 * : A daemon which provides access to fprint functionality through D-Bus to applications, such as login managers (GDM, KDM, ...), screen locking mechanisms etc.
 * : A PAM module for fprint.
 * : provides an UI to the fprint tools.

TODO

 * how to enroll a fingerprint for a specific user
 * Gnome/KDE integration and development status of this features
 * Configure PAM to use fprintd