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thinkfinger package

  1. Bug #203973
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Comment 1 for bug 203973

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Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer) wrote : Re: thinkfinger-tools doesn't provide the --add-user switch on amd64

I can confirm that behaviour. The manpage tells us to use tf-tool --add-user though it is patched out. It is supposed to copy the bir-file to /etc/pam_thinkfinger/$USER.bir
This is easy to achieve: generate your thinkfinger.bir file with tf-tool --acquire and either hardlink it to /etc/pam_libthinkfinger/ or just leave it there.
Because the ubuntu README reads:

> To verify a fingerprint run 'tf-tool --verify'. tf-tool will by default
> read a fingerprint image from ~/.thinkfinger.bir and compare that with the
> finger which is being swiped. You can override this location by passing
> the desired location as parameter.

A hint would be nice, that --add-user has been patched out.