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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, thanks so much for the bug report.

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately.  I'm going to have to
mark this "won't fix" for now.

The prevailing opinion from security professionals is that fingerprints
are perhaps a good replacement for usernames.  However, they're really
not a good replacement for passwords.

Consider your laptop...  How many fingerprints of yours are there on
your laptop right now?  As such, it's about as secret as your username.
You don't leave your password on your spacebar, or on your beer bottle
:-)

This wikipedia entry (although it's about Microsoft Fingerprint Readers) is pretty accurate:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Fingerprint_Reader

So, I'm sorry, but I don't think we'll be fixing this for now.

:-Dustin

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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add support for fingerprint readers in pam_ecryptfs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255799
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

User request, it seems a good wishlist item to me...

"It does not seem currently possible to use this solution in combination with a fingerprint reader, since the pam module has to intercept the login password. Is this going to be a possibility in the future?" -- woutersj 


:-Dustin