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lviggiani
July 11th, 2008, 07:54 AM
Hi,
I could configure my fingerprint reader so that I can use it to login and within the Terminal when su password is requested. I also would like to use it to unlock the gnome keyring... but I can't find any help on that.
I've found some tutorial on how to unlock the keyring upon login but they only work if I do login by typing the password rather than using the fingerprint reader.
Is there a way to automatically unlock the keyring upon login even when using the fingerprint reader?
Thanks in advance.

schkovich
October 2nd, 2009, 12:30 PM
Is there a way to automatically unlock the keyring upon login even when using the fingerprint reader?
In short: No. :)

Automatic unlocking relays on capturing password you typed in.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-keyring/+bug/276384