fingerprint readers

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I have two laptops with fingerprinter readers. I don't have much use for them but since they're present, I thought I'd look into what is needed to make them useful.

This blog post covers just about all I need.

Biometric authentication on FreeBSD with fingerprint scanners 🔑

Guide on setting up fingerprint scanners on FreeBSD as a means of biometric authentication. Goes over the general software architecture and a few use cases.
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The author submitted a patch that allows better support for fprintd. The patch is merged to so it might appear in 15.1-RELEASE or 16.0-RELEASE.

The challenge for me is to not make such a mess that I lock myself out.
 
So, does it work for you? I didn't have much luck using it with KDE. I still had to hit enter at the password prompt before I could use my fingerprint. I only did that because my fingerprint scanner light up after I entered my password. After changing fprintd to required instead of sufficient, I locked myself out of root because I hadn't entered a fingerprint for root.

Code: 
auth            sufficient      /usr/local/lib/security/pam_fprintd.so
auth            sufficient      pam_unix.so     no_warn try_first_pass nullok

Anyway, if this works as expected for anyone using KDE I'd be curious to hear how to get the password working.
 
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