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