Fingerprint Reader On Ubuntu

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If your system has a supported fingerprint scanner, you can record your fingerprint and use it to log in.

  1. Fingerprint Reader Ubuntu Lenovo
  2. Fingerprint Reader Ubuntu 18.04

Before you can log in with your fingerprint, you need to record it so that the system can use it to identify you.

For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or greater, it would be simple as only required two steps to install Fingerprint Scanner. Tested using Lenovo Thinkpad X240 sudo apt install. Here I am using Linux Mint 14 ( Mint is very similar OS to Ubuntu) on Lenovo ThinkPad machine. Step 1 - is your Finger print reader detected by system.? First check whether your figer print reader is recognized or not by the system. For this open terminal and run command.

If your finger is too dry, you may have difficulty registering your fingerprint. If this happens, moisten your finger slightly, dry it with a clean, lint-free cloth, and retry.

You need administrator privileges to edit user accounts other than your own.

  1. Open the Activities overview and start typing Users.

  2. Click on Users to open the panel.

  3. Press on Disabled, next to Fingerprint Login to add a fingerprint for the selected account. If you are adding the fingerprint for a different user, you will first need to Unlock the panel.

  4. Select the finger that you want to use for the fingerprint, then Next.

  5. Follow the instructions in the dialog and swipe your finger at a moderate speed over your fingerprint reader. Once the computer has a good record of your fingerprint, you will see a Done! message.

  6. Select Next. You will see a confirmation message that your fingerprint was saved successfully. Select Close to finish.

Now check that your new fingerprint login works. If you register a fingerprint, you still have the option to log in with your password.

  1. Save any open work, and then log out.

  2. At the login screen, select your name from the list. The password entry form will appear.

  3. Instead of typing your password, you should be able to swipe your finger on the fingerprint reader.

In past there was a way to unlock Linux using face detection method but that is no longer available and maintained by anyone. Another great way to get privileges on your system is Fingerprint, which means you don't have to type password each time you login in to your system or run sudo/su/gksudo command, simply place your finger to your fingerprint device and rest of the process will be automated. Since I don't own any fingerprint device, so I can't tell you how well this method work but looking at developer site this application seems promising and stable by all means, this project is alive since 2008 and still getting updates from developer and application is open to any kind hack/test by anyone then submit bug to developer to fix.

Fingerprint Reader Ubuntu Lenovo

Fingerprint Reader On Ubuntu

Fingerprint Reader Ubuntu 18.04

Fingerprint GUI is an application providing fingerprint-based authentication on Linux desktops. It features a simple GUI for fingerprint management and a PAM module. It is based on the libfprint library. It enables recording and checking of fingerprint data and allows login and authentication of users by their fingerprint using a fingerprint scanner. Additionally, you may install the bundled non-free libbsapi library. In this case Fingerprint GUI will automatically support all fingerprint readers manufactured by UPEK, Inc.
Fingerprint GUI is free software. You can use, modify, copy and distribute it under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3). The safety and reliability of the fingerprint-recognition depends very much on the hardware used, the associated device drivers and the software used to verify the biometric data. According to the current state of the art fingerprint recognition for security-critical applications is only limited suitable. More information about safety of fingerprints can be found here. For the list of fingerprint readers supported by libfprint check this link.

Supported readers (run command lsusb to find out the ID of your reader)
045e:00bb08ff:168308ff:258008ff:268d
045e:00bc08ff:168408ff:266008ff:268e
045e:00bd08ff:168508ff:268008ff:268f
045e:00ca08ff:168608ff:268108ff:2691
0483:201508ff:168708ff:268208ff:2810
0483:201608ff:168808ff:268308ff:5501
05ba:000708ff:168908ff:268408ff:5731
05ba:000808ff:168a08ff:2685138a:0001
05ba:000a08ff:168b08ff:2686138a:0005
061a:011008ff:168c08ff:2687138a:0008
08ff:160008ff:168d08ff:2688147e:1000
08ff:166008ff:168e08ff:2689147e:2016
08ff:168008ff:168f08ff:268a147e:2020
08ff:168108ff:250008ff:268b147e:3001
08ff:168208ff:255008ff:268c1c7a:0603
147e:1003147e:3000147e:1002147e:2015
147e:5003147e:5002147e:1001

If you are using distribution other than Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Ubuntu based then you can use source to install it on your system.
To install Fingerprint GUI in Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic/18.04 Bionic/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 19.1/19/18/17/13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:Fingerprint Reader On UbuntuFingerprint Reader On Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fingerprint-gui
sudo apt-get install libbsapi policykit-1-fingerprint-gui fingerprint-gui
That's it
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