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 > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us > ----------------------------- > The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, > keeping watch on the wicked and the good. > ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) > ----------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++