Authentication with finger print reader

[bitlord]

On Mon, 25 May 2015 17:28:17 +0530
Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using Fedora 21 with GNOME Shell 3.14.2 in a Lenovo T530 laptop.
> Is there anyway that I can configure the finder print reader in the
> laptop to login to GNOME and to authenticate for other operations,
> such as git push etc ?
> 

If your fingerprint reader is supported, you can configure it in System
Settings > Users  and for your user it should be there (I'm currently
not on gnome desktop to tell you how exactly it is named, but easy to
find if supported/displayed), I have older T400 with fingerprint reader
which is supported, and it works fine.

Also if you want to find out more, tools/libs are fprintd / libfprint
(or similar), also check thinkwiki
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrated_Fingerprint_Reader