ThinkFinger on T61 in Gutsy
Recently just change my laptop from HP compaq nc6210 to Lenovo Thinkpad T61. So far i don’t get any problem with the driver in Gutsy include its fingerprint …. output from thinkfinger …
fenris@thinkbuntu:~$ tf-tool –verify-user fenris
ThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>Could not access /etc/pam_thinkfinger: Permission denied
fenris@thinkbuntu:~$ sudo tf-tool –verify-user fenris
Password or swipe finger:ThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>Initializing… done.
Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 1/1, failed swipes: 0)… done.
Result: Fingerprint does match.
fenris@thinkbuntu:~$ sudo tf-tool –acquireThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>Initializing… done.
Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 3/3, failed swipes: 0)… done.
Storing data (/tmp/test.bir)… done.
fenris@thinkbuntu:~$ sudo tf-tool –add-user fenrisThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>Initializing… done.
Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 3/3, failed swipes: 0)… done.
Storing data (/etc/pam_thinkfinger/fenris.bir)… done.
Setting ACL on aquired file: /etc/pam_thinkfinger/fenris.bir.
Unable to set ACL of aquired file: /etc/pam_thinkfinger/fenris.bir: Operation not supported
So now .. i just login my lappy with my fingerprint … thanks to the developer who make its for linux/unix ….








January 26th, 2008 at 2:05 am
this is so cool. I hope I can make it work on my Compaq @ Gentoo
April 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
[...] Now I can join Fenris with his thinkfinger on Thinpad. Of course, my examples here are quite simple. You can always manipulate and exploit the fprint [...]