Mohammad Foroughi's Blog

September 15, 2010

Using ThinkPad SL300′s Fingerprint Sensor under debian

Filed under: Linux — Tags: , , , — foroughi @ 9:40 pm

Unfortunately IBM Lenovo SL300′s Fingerprint Sensor is not supported by ThinkFinger.

My Sensor Model is:147e:1000 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor.

You can see your sensor’s model by lsusb command.

You must downlaod upek driver from here.

First you must install downloaded app:
dpkg -i PSforLinux0.1STD.RC3/debian5/ps-for-linux-0.1.deb

Then you must add this line at the very beginning of /etc/pam.d/common-auth:
auth sufficient pam_upek.so

That is all!

Now, you can enjoy fingerprint login in shell, gdm, xscreen saver and gnome screen saver!

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