I am looking for a way to setup a fingerprint authentication on a linux
server. I am looking for a way to be able to use a fingerprint scanner to
authenticate the users at the actual server, and, if possible, when setting
up SSH connections from remote computers. Have any of you guys ever set
anything like this up? Can you recommend any hardware that would work well?

I am just researching this right now and would appreciate any help. Thank
you.

- Bogdan

x0054 wrote:

> I am looking for a way to setup a fingerprint authentication on a linux
> server. I am looking for a way to be able to use a fingerprint scanner to
> authenticate the users at the actual server, and, if possible, when
> setting up SSH connections from remote computers. Have any of you guys
> ever set anything like this up? Can you recommend any hardware that would
> work well?
>
> I am just researching this right now and would appreciate any help. Thank
> you.
>
> - Bogdan

VeriFinger, it is a fingerprint identification software development kit.

I had a feeling I had seen finger print logins on some Linux distro. Turns
out it has been on for some time,
FDC4/5..Now
RHEL
Suse9.3
Gentoo
and others

So it has been around for a while, I've never seen a place where it is used
but apparently some of the new HP laptops are using built in finger print
scanners.

The google search "fingerprint login linux" brought up some good links, one
in particular that might prove usefull for you is,

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to...erprint_reader

on Wednesday 01 August 2007 08:33
in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware
x0054 wrote:

> I am looking for a way to setup a fingerprint authentication on a linux
> server. I am looking for a way to be able to use a fingerprint scanner to
> authenticate the users at the actual server, and, if possible, when
> setting up SSH connections from remote computers. Have any of you guys
> ever set anything like this up? Can you recommend any hardware that would
> work well?
>
> I am just researching this right now and would appreciate any help. Thank
> you.

The only fingerprint reader to even consider using is one labeled,
"toy only - not for real use", or one that can detect that you are
still alive and attached to the finger.

Which finger do you want the thieves to cut off and keep when they
discard your corpse? Read news://comp.risks, a glorious compilation of
hilarious and appalling mistakes that people (keep) making with
computers.


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