On Sat, November 3, 2018 12:48 pm, Fred Smith wrote:

Hi all!

I just got a new (to me) used laptop (HP EliteBook 8530p) and find that it has a fingerprint reader.

Wondering if it could be made to work for me (Centos-7) I did a lot of googling (well, actually duck-duck-go-ing)

You made my day! duckduckgo.com for me always!

and found a ton of hits on either setting it up in Windoze, or others wondering if it can be used in Linux. Some info on setting it up in Ubuntu, and a couple of pages on setting it up in Fedora, pages that were ten years old, or so.

Found an academic paper on a group that wrote portable tools in Java that allegedly enable it in a cross-platfor manner, but not the software itself.

Does anyone here have any better information on if it is possible, and if so, how?

I have fingerprint reader on my laptop, and I never configure that with my fingerprints. If someone is evil enough, they can beat my password out of me and walk away with my laptop and password. I don't want them walk away with my finger to use on fingerprint reader ;-) There are other considerations similar to using dickdickgo but not google. Stolen password you can change. What about stolen fingerprint metrics?

Thanks again for duckduckgo!

Valeri

thanks in advance!

Fred

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---- Fred Smith -- fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

                  The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
                keeping watch on the wicked and the good.

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