fprintd - Fingerprint management daemon, and test applications

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ARGUMENTS TEST APPLICATIONS fprintd−enroll fprintd−list fprintd−verify fprintd−delete AUTHOR DIRECTORIES SEE ALSO

NAME

fprintd − Fingerprint management daemon, and test applications

SYNOPSIS

fprintd−enroll [−f finger] [usename]

fprintd−list username [usernames...]

fprintd−verify [−f finger] [usename]

fprintd−delete username [usernames...]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the fprintd command−line utilities.

The fprintd daemon is accessed through D−Bus by those command−line utilities.

ARGUMENTS

username

The username for the user for which you want to query or modify the fingerprint database.

Note that fprintd−list and fprintd−delete require at least one username to be passed, and support multiple usernames.

fprintd−enroll and fprintd−verify will use the current username if none are passed on the command−line.

−f finger

For fprintd−enroll, the finger to enroll. Possible values are:

left−thumb, left−index−finger, left−middle−finger, left−ring−finger, left−little−finger, right−thumb, right−index−finger, right−middle−finger, right−ring−finger, right−little−finger.

The default is to choose automatically, selecting the first available finger for swipe devices, or all the enrolled fingers, for press devices.

TEST APPLICATIONS

fprintd−enroll

Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database.

fprintd−list

Will list the user's enrolled fingerprints.

fprintd−verify

Will verify the user's fingerprints against the database.

fprintd−delete

Will delete the user's right index finger into the database.

AUTHOR

fprintd was written by Bastien Nocera and Daniel Drake.

DIRECTORIES

By default, fprintd stores the fingerprints in /var/lib/fprint/