1fprintd 2======= 3 4https://fprint.freedesktop.org/ 5 6Daemon to offer libfprint functionality over D-Bus 7Might eat your kangaroo. 8 9Written in C. 10 11Licensed under the GPL version 2 or any later version (see COPYING). 12 13A PAM login module is included in the 'pam' directory. 14 15API use cases 16============= 17 18- User wants to use the fingerprint reader, and enroll 19 his fingerprints, or remove some fingerprints from the database 20 21- Administrator wants to enroll fingerprints for a particular user, 22 or remove fingerprints for a particular user 23 24- Laptop/desktop authentication: 25 * Check for fingerprint devices 26 * Check whether a particular user has any fingerprints enrolled 27 * Verify a fingerprint for a particular user, or, if the device 28 supports it, verify that the fingerprint matches against 29 any of the fingerprints enrolled 30 31- Point Of Sale authentication (in a bar, the fingerprint reader is 32 used to see who accesses a particular point of sale/till, in place 33 of PIN code authentication and/or tokens) 34 * Given a list of users, verify which one has scanned their finger 35 36