Unlock keyring with fingerprint on login 14.04

Question

I have a ThinkPad with a fingerprint reader installed. In windows I can log in perfectly fine without typing a password. Is there any way to unlock the login keyring from the fingerprint scanner? I already have fingerprint gui installed and it does not seem to solve the problem.

Solution

You don´t need only the fingerprint-gui, you also need the libbsapi and the policykit-1-fingerprint-gui.

They are all in the same PPA:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fingerprint/fingerprint-gui

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libbsapi policykit-1-fingerprint-gui fingerprint-gui

Then it should be fine, you can then call:

sudo fingerprint-gui and configure it (you can test PAM service like sudo in the settings)

Or this alternative method:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fprint
sudo apt-get install fprintd libpam-fprintd

Download the driver && Install the fingerprint driver:

sudo dpkg -i fprint-vfs5011_0-1_amd64.deb

sudo fingerprint-gui and configure it (you can test PAM service like sudo in the settings)