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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #346083
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 346083

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Mattias Eriksson (snaggen) wrote : Re: [Bug 346083] Re: gnome-about-me misses fprintd for fingerprint authentication support

mån 2010-02-22 klockan 15:23 +0000 skrev imachine:

> Oh, actually, three things:
>
> Could it be possible to maybe make the pam_fprint unlock the keydatabase
> in keyring? So that I don't have to type in my wifi passwords, etc,
> after logging with my fingerprint?

Well currently no, since it needs a password to encrypt/decrypt the
passwords for secure storage on disk. The following bug discusses just
this and the idea seems to be to have multiple passwords/secrets to
unlock the keyring. That way pam-fprintd could provide some secret based
on the fingerprint to unlock the keyring.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501204

However, it doesn't seem like someone is working very hard to fix
this...

//Mattias