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pam_fprintd(8)							  pam_fprintd(8)

NAME
     pam_fprintd - PAM module to authenticate against fprintd, the fingerprint
     daemon

SYNOPSIS
     pam_fprintd.so [debug|debug=[on|off|true|false|1|0]] [max-tries=MAX_TRIES]
     [timeout=TIMEOUT]

DESCRIPTION
     The pam_fprintd module is used to verify a user's fingerprints against fin-
     gerprints enrolled using fprintd, the fingerprint management daemon.

OPTIONS
     debug
     debug=[on|off|true|false|1|0]
	     Whether debug should be turned on or off. Debug messages will be
	     generated using pam_syslog which means that they will be saved in
	     the systemd journal by default.

     max-tries=MAX_TRIES
	     The number of attempts at fingerprint authentication to try before
	     returning an authentication failure. The minimum number of tries is
	     1 while the default is 3.

     timeout=TIMEOUT
	     The amount of time before returning an authentication failure. The
	     default timeout is 30 seconds, with 10 seconds being the minimum.

LIMITATIONS
     The PAM stack is by design a serialised authentication, so it is not possi-
     ble for pam_fprintd to allow authentication through passwords and finger-
     prints at the same time.

     It is up to the application using the PAM services to implement separate
     PAM processes and run separate authentication stacks separately. This is
     the way multiple authentication methods are made available to users of gdm
     for example.

AUTHOR
     fprintd was written by Bastien Nocera.

SEE ALSO
     fprintd, PAM

freedesktop			   2024-09-05			  pam_fprintd(8)

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