Recent changes to patches

Ubuntu 11.04

Renegade Packet — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:39:05 -0000

I get this error when I sudo:

[sudo] password for myname: **
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gio/gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)

It works at the login screen but not for sudo.

I installed libpam-thinkfinger (0.3+r118-0ubuntu5) and thinkfinger-tools (0.3+r118-0ubuntu5) from aptitude

I set my fingerprint using tf-tools and fingerprint-gui

Add Eikon/UPEK support

Nicolas Provost — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:32:51 -0000

Add support for UPEK fingerprint reader "Eikon" id 147e:2016
Add multiple usb ids support in libthinkfinger.c

pam: send sync event after key events

Philipp Gortan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:03:42 -0000

Changes to xf86-input-evdev result in key events not being processed before the next sync event is sent.
This patch sends a sync event after the key events.

0483:2016 vaio variant support needed

flocchini — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:27:39 -0000

from http://avilella.googlepages.com/vaiosz , "fingerprint reader" section

"Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader

G.P. has investigated this and UPEK answered:

> It is a problem of custom firmware of the fingerprint module that Sony
> required for their notebooks. This firmware needs a special key before
> calling any functions, thus Linux driver cannot access them... Only special
> version of PS QL (which has the key build-in) can work with the sensor. Sony
> does not want any other software to be able to communicate with the
> fingerprint sensor.
>
> According to our business agreement, we cannot enclose the Sony's key in our
> Linux BSP.
The windows version of the UPEK driver seems to work fine and hopefully it will not differ too much from the linux one. But it will be difficult to have this working for Linux :)"

I also have this fingerprint reader on my vaio laptop, I can help with usb dump etc if can help to support this device

Patch set as seen on mailing list

Christian Neumair — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:18:30 -0000

I'm attaching my patch set as seen on the mailing list [1] due to continuous problems with mailing list archives.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1186911367.5969.10.camel%40localhost.localdomain&forum_name=thinkfinger-devel

Spec File

Paul Stewart — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:36:00 -0000

Might I suggest a SPEC file for the purposes of making an RPM build directly out of the tar file?

Possible Buffer Overflow in libthinkfinger_verify()

Satoru SATOH — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:12:18 -0000

There is a possible buffer overflow in libthinkfinger_verify(), I guess.
(checked with the gcc option, "FORTIFY_SOURCE=2")

And how about a fix like the following for it?

--- thinkfinger-0.2.2/libthinkfinger/libthinkfinger.c.bufover 2007-02-07 01:52:56.000000000 +0900
+++ thinkfinger-0.2.2/libthinkfinger/libthinkfinger.c 2007-02-07 01:53:22.000000000 +0900
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
goto out;
}

- filesize = read (tf->fd, ctrlbuf+header, 10240);
+ filesize = read (tf->fd, ctrlbuf+header, sizeof(ctrlbuf)-header);
filesize -= 2; // HACK!
*((short *) (ctrlbuf+8)) = filesize + 28;
ctrlbuf[5] = (filesize+20511) >> 8;

Some enhancments to the Pam Modul

Gabor Janak — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:24:14 -0000

see Mailinglist & Patch.

works with pam 0.78-r5.

Dont ask for finger for remote users.