systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...

[Rick Stevens]

On 10/14/2013 01:01 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz issued this missive:
> I don't have any fingerprint reader connected to my machine. Why is
> systemd starting this useless daemon in this case? I've heard somewhere
> that systemd tends to be more intelligent version of sysvinit that does
> only what is really needed to save time and system resources. Here are
> two lines from my system logs on F19 machine.
>
> systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...
> systemd[1]: Started Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.

As root:

	# systemctl stop fprintd.service
	# systemctl disable fprintd.service

It doesn't use a lot of resources...leaving it running is not a huge
thing but yeah, if you don't have a scanner it is sorta silly.
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