fprintd

http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Fprintd

Daemon to offer libfprint functionality over D-Bus Currently in early stages. Might eat your kangaroo.

Written in C. Requires bleeding edge libfprint (libusb-1.0 port).

Licensed under the GPL version 2 (see COPYING).

An experimental PAM login module is included in the 'pam' directory. This will be moved to a separate package once the system has matured.

API use cases

• User wants to use the fingerprint reader, and enroll his fingerprints, or remove some fingerprints from the database

• Administrator wants to enroll fingerprints for a particular user, or remove fingerprints for a particular user

• Laptop/desktop authentication:

  • Check for fingerprint devices
  • Check whether a particular user has any fingerprints enrolled
  • Verify a fingerprint for a particular user, or, if the device supports it, verify that the fingerprint matches against any of the fingerprints enrolled

• Point Of Sale authentication (in a bar, the fingerprint reader is used to see who accesses a particular point of sale/till, in place of PIN code authentication and/or tokens)

  • Given a list of users, verify which one has scanned their finger