fprintd

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https://fprint.freedesktop.org/

Daemon to offer libfprint functionality over D-Bus

Might eat your kangaroo.

Written in C.

Licensed under the GPL version 2 or any later version (see COPYING).

A PAM login module is included in the 'pam' directory.

API use cases

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- User wants to use the fingerprint reader, and enroll

  his fingerprints, or remove some fingerprints from the database

- Administrator wants to enroll fingerprints for a particular user,

  or remove fingerprints for a particular user

- Laptop/desktop authentication:

  * Check for fingerprint devices

  * Check whether a particular user has any fingerprints enrolled

  * Verify a fingerprint for a particular user, or, if the device

  supports it, verify that the fingerprint matches against

  any of the fingerprints enrolled

- Point Of Sale authentication (in a bar, the fingerprint reader is

  used to see who accesses a particular point of sale/till, in place

  of PIN code authentication and/or tokens)

  * Given a list of users, verify which one has scanned their finger