{"id":1043,"date":"2012-08-28T20:02:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2012-08-29T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T13:08:56","slug":"ubuntu-12-04-fingerprint-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 12.04 Fingerprint Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fingerprint reader worked when signing in, but the screenlock unlock doesn&#8217;t seem to use the reader.  After resuming from suspend at log-in screen, it didn&#8217;t work.  I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkfinger.sourceforge.net\/\">Thinkfinger<\/a> but it hasn&#8217;t been updated since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>First I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/111334\/login-using-fingerprint-reader\">reference in askubuntu.com<\/a> that questioned the age of Thinkfinger and recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~fingerprint\/+archive\/fingerprint-gui\">Fingerprint GUI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still have Thinkfinger installed.  The first step was to disable it in <code>\/etc\/pam.d\/common-auth<\/code> by commenting out the <code>pam_thinkfinger.so<\/code> line.  Next I followed the instructions to <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~fingerprint\/+archive\/fingerprint-gui\">install Fingerprint GUI<\/a>.  It was pretty simple.<\/p>\n<p>To clean up, I removed the packages libpam-thinkfinger, libthinkfinger0 and thinkfinger-tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingerprint reader worked when signing in, but the screenlock unlock doesn&#8217;t seem to use the reader. After resuming from suspend at log-in screen, it didn&#8217;t work. I&#8217;ve been using Thinkfinger but it hasn&#8217;t been updated since 2007. First I found a reference in askubuntu.com that questioned the age of Thinkfinger and recommended Fingerprint GUI. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}