{"id":1472,"date":"2016-09-30T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:45:56","slug":"enabling-the-fingerprint-reader-on-a-lenovo-t560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Enabling the fingerprint reader on a Lenovo T560"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Ubuntu 16.04:<br \/>\n<code>sudo apt install libpam-fprintd<\/code><br \/>\nOptionally, also install fprintd-demo.  You&#8217;ll have to run fprintd_demo as root for it to access the fingerprint scanning device.<br \/>\nTo store your fingerprint and enable use of the fingerprint scanner:<br \/>\n<code>fprintd-enroll<\/code><br \/>\nNote, run fprintd-enroll as your user account, not root.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.  The log-in screen will ask you to swipe your finger rather than use a password, but you&#8217;ll still have to click &#8220;log in&#8221; after you do so.  Sudo, both command line and graphical, will also ask to swipe, but you won&#8217;t have to do anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/511876\/how-to-install-a-fingerprint-reader-on-lenovo-thinkpad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Ubuntu 16.04: sudo apt install libpam-fprintd Optionally, also install fprintd-demo. You&#8217;ll have to run fprintd_demo as root for it to access the fingerprint scanning device. To store your fingerprint and enable use of the fingerprint scanner: fprintd-enroll Note, run fprintd-enroll as your user account, not root. That&#8217;s it. The log-in screen will ask you [&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-1472","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\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}