GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660491
prompts to swipe finger after fingerprint plugin removed
Last modified: 2011-10-19 01:21:51 UTC
I was having trouble with login and suspected the fingerprint plugin. I rpm -e removed gdm-plugin-fingerprint and then went back to the greeter and clicked Cancel. The next time I clicked my name I saw a "(or swipe finger)" prompt under the text entry. It is especially interesting because I didn't see this before I removed the plugin but I didn't expect to see it after at all.
So gdm-plugin-fingerprint is actually a legacy of the fall back greeter. The shell based greeter has no plugin mechanism for disabling fingerprint. Whether fingerprint shows up is a matter of if the config key is enabled and fprintd is installed. The reason it has any effect at all, is because we ship the pam service file with the plugin instead of in the code gdm data directory. I think that's wrong though. We shouldn't rely on that fact. In fedora we should fold the plugin packages into the same package as the fallback greeter, too, i think.
*** Bug 660911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The following fix has been pushed: 0e0aca6 data: move fingerprint/smartcard pam files to common data
Created attachment 199384 [details] [review] data: move fingerprint/smartcard pam files to common data The non-fallback greeter uses them, too, so they shouldn't be in the fallback greeter source directories.