KDE 6 fingerprint unlock

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Does it prompt for fingerprint if you enter an empty password? If not, I have done a little looking around and found a source that states the following :

Add the following two lines to /etc/pam.d/kde :

<span style="color:#323232;">auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok
</span><span style="color:#323232;">auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
</span>

This configuration allows you to first press enter on the empty password field to be prompted for the fingerprint

RegalPotoo OP , 4 months ago

Empty password doesn’t prompt for a fingerprint, and I thought that was the old hacky workaround for Plasma 5 that Plasma 6 was supposed to have fixed?

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Even if it is, I’m unable to find any other solution. It’s at least worth a shot.
Do be sure to report this bug in the meantime, it’s likely related to pam &/or SDDM.

RegalPotoo OP , 4 months ago

Will do if I can establish what the expected behaviour is supposed to be - from the one line on the website I’d expect a “login with fingerprint” button or something, but I might be wrong - so I know what I’m seeing is actually a bug and not me misinterpreting

Will see if I can track down the original PRs or something, see if there is screenshots or a proposed UI design