----- Original Message ----- <snip> > Could you elaborate a little on your reasoning/thoughts please? > > I am quite interesting to understand your point of view. > From where I stand, we are offering a way for someone to unlock someone's > else > computer without a password. > I understand the procedure isn't straight forward: > - Find unattended and unlocked laptop > - Enroll your fingerprint > - Gain access to the computer whenever you want > > I do realise that to do the second step you need access to the machine, which > is > pretty much the third step. > But enrolling your fingerprint is likely less noticeable by the owner of the > machine then, say, changing their password (which actually asks for the > current > password first), but will give you want you ask: permanent access to the > machine > (physically). Password prompts in GNOME do mention that the fingerprint reader is activated, so it's not so much opening a backdoor as opening the bay window next to the front door. > This is all nicely theoretical but it still seems like something that should > be > fixed, no? It keeps slipping by, and it's not super important, which is the reason why it keeps getting forgotten. I'll get to it next time I do maintenance on fprintd. Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
