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

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/14/2013 01:01 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't know why it's getting started, but I do know that you can use 
systemctl to mask the daemon.