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fprintd-0.8.1p3

fingerprint scanning functionality over D-Bus

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Description

fprintd is a daemon to offer libfprint functionality over D-Bus. API use cases: - 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

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/fprintd
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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