Fingerprint GUI is a set of GUI tools for the use of fingerprint scanners on Linux systems. It enables the recording and checking of fingerprints of users and allows login and authentication of users by their fingerprint through its PAM module. An additional "fingerprintIdentifier" application can be used for customized (shell) scripts when users have to be identified or authenticated by their fingerprints. The system is based on device drivers from the "libfprint" project.
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Some bugfixes and workarounds for running on Lubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 11.10 have been applied: Fingerprint-polkit-agent didn't start on Lubuntu 11.10, there was no fingerprint login on a secure tty on Ubuntu 11.10, the X server didn't restart on logout on Ubuntu 11.10, and an error message didn't show up when a user's homedir was encrypted and fingerprint login was without password.


Release Notes: A segfault in the fingerprint polkit agent appearing after a random number of lock/unlock cycles has been fixed.


Release Notes: For running on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric), a workaround for bug #862559 (lightdm) and some minor bugfixes have been applied.


Release Notes: A minor bug appearing on systems without the XAuth variable in the GDM environment (Gentoo) has been fixed. A build option for building on systems with libpolkit-qt-1-1 (Natty) for qmake has been added. The default PREFIX for building and installing was changed from "/usr" to "/usr/local".


Release Notes: This is a "feature freeze" release candidate for the final 1.00 version. A new "fingerprint-polkit-agent" has been added, and some minor bugs when running in Ubuntu 10.10 have been fixed. A user's manual is now available in the help menu. Ubuntu users can install fingerprint-gui from a personal packet archive (PPA) on Launchpad.