Bugzilla – Bug 379573
pam_thinkfinger not preselected for installation
Last modified: 2008-04-17 16:24:11 UTC
(originally in bug 378737) The package pam_thinkfinger should actually already be installed (or at least selected for installation, but I don't expect Michal manually unselected it) because of its Supplements: modalias(usb:v0483p2016d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*) (see bug 378757) If it wasn't installed, it is probably another zypp bug. I booted 11.0 Alpha3+ on x86_64 machine and these packages are preselected for installation: libthinkfinger libthinkfinger-32bit pam_thinkfinger-32bit, but not pam_thinkfinger! I don't know if this is bug in packaging (Timo) or in solver (Schubi), please check.
Created attachment 207658 [details] y2log
Evaluation of hardware dependencies requires libzypp-4.11 (alpha3+ is 4.8).
I don't want to hijack this bug, but the question is, if it makes sense to use thinkfinger as the default tool for openSUSE any longer? There are quite a few problems with thinkfinger+KDE. I just want to trigger the discussion, if it's better to use fprint instead of thinkfinger on openSUSE 11.0 by default? See this related links: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116682 http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Pam_fprint
Joerg, last time I looked at pam_fprint it did (a) not allow to login without hitting enter after the swipe or (b) concurrent authentication using either a password or pam_thinkfinger. This is a severe usability issue. Please correct me if that is wrong. Thus, fprint is not yet suitable as a drop-in replacement for ThinkFinger. You may expect a better KDE integration for ThinkFinger as Dirk Mueller fixed the KDE side of things to play nice with pam_thinkfinger. It's probably not yet checked into FACTORY; dunno. For anything post 11.0 we'll switch to libfprint.