T61 Fingerprint reader

[jakev383]

I have a T61 and am running F12. Great job guys! Everything worked out of the box!
My only question is the fingerprint reader - it allows me to login, su, and sudo. But when I use it to login, it does not unlock the keyring to enable my wireless. Not the end of the world, but is a little counter intuitive to use the finger to login only to have to enter the password to unlock the keyring anyway. If I use the password, it automatically unlocks the keyring.
Anyone have any ideas or solutions?

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Found a "solution". It's not the most secure, but hey, if they can get into the computer they already have my finger and I have other problems, eh?

Anyway, drop to a CLI, and enter "seahorse". Right click the Passwords: Login option, and then change password. Enter the old password, but leave the new password blank. Click OK, and then Ok again that you wish to store the passwords in unsafe mode.

[droidhacker]

Originally Posted by jakev383

if they can get into the computer they already have my finger and I have other problems, eh?

Actually, no. They will only have access to your UNENCRYPTED data, which does NOT include your fingerprint.

For example, when you use a password, it will only store a HASH of your password in the /etc/shadow file. This hashed version is one-way encrypted. You can use the password to generate the hash, but you can NOT use the hash to generate the password. Same thing with the fingerprint -- the fingerprint can be used to generate the fingerprint hash, but the hash can't be used to generate the fingerprint.

[jakev383]

Actually I was making a joke - if they had my finger then they had cut it off and I had other things to worry about than them reading my super-secret email
Thanks for the info though - I had not realized the fingerprint was hashed as well.