Bug 191996 – sys-auth/pam_bioapi depends on masked sys-auth/tfm-fingerprint

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ryan 2007-09-10 16:43:08 UTC]

But tfm-fingerprint is masked in favor of thinkfinger, see bug #162297

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-09-10 19:05:29 UTC]

you dont need pam_bioapi either ... thinkfinger provides the pam module

[Comment 2 Ryan 2007-09-11 05:08:36 UTC]

then should pam_bioapi be masked also? so people moving over from tfm-fingerprint,will see it in the masking comment.

[Comment 3 amette 2007-09-11 15:18:27 UTC]

Why was tfm-fingerprint masked in the first place?

I'm eager to switch to it, but currently it can't do all the stuff, that can be done with pam_bioapi. E.g. store multiple fingers, can't be used with KDM and can't carry a password which will be passed on to later pam-modules in the stack.

The pam_bioapi in portage is also outdated btw. The current 0.4.0 version is available at:
http://pam-bioapi.googlecode.com

[Comment 4 amette 2007-09-11 15:20:04 UTC]

Created attachment 130587 [details]
pam_bioapi-0.4.0 ebuild

This is an ebuild for the current pam_bioapi 0.4.0 which provides usage of multiple fingers and a password as payload, that will be passed to later modules in the pam-stack, e.g. to decrypt SSH-keys or such

[Comment 5 amette 2007-09-11 15:24:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Why was tfm-fingerprint masked in the first place?
> 
> I'm eager to switch to it
Switch to ThinkFinger that is..

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2007-12-31 01:07:07 UTC]

pam_bioapi-0.4.0 now in the tree