On 06/03/2021 11:24, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes:
>>
>> Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages
>> Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start
>>
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:57 am, Philip Hands wrote:
Wouter Verhelst writes:
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the
desktop
environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE
and
see i
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 9:52 AM wrote:
> Surely there is some "canonical" way of dealing with "oh, this shiny
> piece of hardware has just appeared; what do you want to do with
> it?".
The isenkram package is meant to do this, it relies on the packages
containing hardware support announcing this
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 06:24:49PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
[...]
> If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect), then it will be
> installed on all systems that have a fingerprint reader (and which don't
> have it disabled in
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 4:29 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect),
I think that the isenkram package is meant to replace this, it relies
on the packages containing hardware support announcing this
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes:
>
> Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages
> Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start
> Mark> registering your prints.
>
> Right, and t
On 05/03/2021 18:14, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes:
>
> Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages
> Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start
> Mark> registering your prints.
>
> Right, and the desktop maintain
Thanks Sam & Wouter
On 05/03/2021 02:52, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop
>> environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and
>> see if they are intere
> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes:
Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages
Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start
Mark> registering your prints.
Right, and the desktop maintainers could choose to make their desktop
meta packages dep
Wouter Verhelst writes:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop
>> environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and
>> see if they are interested in recommending this functionality
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 04:55:21PM +0100, William Bonnet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Yes, and we should do that in a way so that our users are not subject to
> > those attacks by default, but can still log in to their system by using
> > a biometric sensor, if the laptop provides that feature and they want
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop
> environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and
> see if they are interested in recommending this functionality.
It could also be added to th
> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes:
Mark> Hi all, Not sure the right forum to raise this - please
Mark> redirect me as appropriate :)
Mark> I was checking Debian on my Lenovo P1 G3 today (using testing
Mark> latest) and figured I'd have another stab at getting the
Mark> fing
Hi,
> Yes, and we should do that in a way so that our users are not subject to
> those attacks by default, but can still log in to their system by using
> a biometric sensor, if the laptop provides that feature and they want
> it?
I'm very interested by this subject an would be happy to help.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:48:32AM +, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote:
>
> > Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now
> > improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default?
>
> Biometrics are almost always us
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote:
> Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now
> improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default?
Biometrics are almost always used incorrectly and often insecure or
easily hackable, it would be bette
Hi all,
Not sure the right forum to raise this - please redirect me as
appropriate :)
I was checking Debian on my Lenovo P1 G3 today (using testing latest)
and figured I'd have another stab at getting the fingerprint working -
something I've not had much success with previously on Debian.
It tur
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