Enable fingerprint reader with fprintd

[jodarove]

Supported devices are listed here https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html
Check if your device id. Run

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lsusb

copy the id (the sixth column of the output) and search it on the website. In my case, it was 27c6:639c

Let's proceed to the installation:
1- Search for the package fprint

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apt search fprint

2- Install fprintd

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sudo apt install fprintd

in my case it was already installed

3- Install the library/module PAM module

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sudo apt install libpam-fprintd

4- Tell the system to use the fingerprint reader

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sudo pam-auth-update

make sure "Fingerprint authentication" is selected, then select "Ok" to save.

5- Add or enroll your fingers print

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fprintd-enroll -f [finger]

. so you can do

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fprintd-enroll -f right-index-finger

Options for [finger] can be:

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  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

6- Test it! run

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fprintd-verify

enjoy!
My system info:

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System:
Kernel: 6.5.0-1007-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

[VictorGG]

Hello jodarove,

First of all, thank you for the tutorial about this topic. I've followed all the steps you mention above, but something went wrong I guess I've missed something.

I'd like you to take a look at my screen shots

My device is supported according to this site: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

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victor@victorgg-lenovor7:~$ apt search fprint
i   fprintd                          - D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access 
p   fprintd-doc                      - development documentation for fprintd      
p   gir1.2-fprint-2.0                - async fingerprint library of fprint project
i   libfprint-2-2                    - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-dev                  - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-doc                  - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-tod-dev              - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-tod1                 - async fingerprint library of fprint project
i   libpam-fprintd                   - PAM module for fingerprint authentication t
victor@victorgg-lenovor7:~$ sudo apt install fprintd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
fprintd is already the newest version (1.94.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

When I run the command fprintd-enroll -f right-index-finger this is the result:

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victor@victorgg-lenovor7:~$ fprintd-enroll -f right-index-finger
Impossible to enroll: GDBus.Error:net.reactivated.Fprint.Error.NoSuchDevice: No devices available

What do you think it might be? ... Thanks again

This is my system info:

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System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33
    wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82KU v: IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709WIN serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: GLCN22WW date: 03/17/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.4 Wh (98.9%) condition: 43.9/45.0 Wh (97.5%) volts: 11.8 min: 11.1
    model: SMP L20M3PF0 serial: <filter> status: Not charging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
    rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1415 high: 4093 min/max: 400/4372 cores: 1: 2196 2: 1397 3: 400 4: 1397
    5: 1397 6: 1530 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 1397 11: 1397 12: 4093 13: 4032 14: 400 15: 400
    16: 1410 bogomips: 57493
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c
  Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2
    chip-ID: 04f2:b725
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung T24B301 res: 1920x1080
    dpi: 94 diag: 598mm (23.5")
  Monitor-2: eDP pos: primary,right res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 diag: 394mm (15.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: RENOIR (renoir LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.54 6.5.0-14-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A pcie:
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-14-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo
    driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:c822
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:c123
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1
    sub-v: 6d7d
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 24.97 GiB (10.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530 SDBPMPZ-256G-1101 size: 238.47 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 35.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 196.51 GiB used: 24.97 GiB (12.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2431
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb https: //mirror.alwyzon.net/linuxmint victoria main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //mirror.easyname.at/ubuntu-archive jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //mirror.easyname.at/ubuntu-archive jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //mirror.easyname.at/ubuntu-archive jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 463 Uptime: 58m Memory: 13.5 GiB used: 3.25 GiB (24.0%) Init: systemd v: 249
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.8.4 inxi: 3.3.13

[jodarove]

Hi Victor,

Sorry for the late reply.
It looks like you miss the step 3 to Install the library/module PAM module. if that's the case can you try to this?

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sudo apt install libpam-fprintd

and then try to enroll your finger? Let me know how it goes?

[VictorGG]

Hi Victor,

Sorry for the late reply.
It looks like you miss the step 3 to Install the library/module PAM module. if that's the case can you try to this?

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sudo apt install libpam-fprintd

and then try to enroll your finger? Let me know how it goes?

Hi again jodarove,

Thanks for your reply.
It's installed, but it still doesn't work. It says GDBus.Error:net.reactivated.Fprint.Error.NoSuchDevice: No devices available
It seems I'll have to live without it

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victor@victorgg-lenovor7:~$ sudo apt install libpam-fprintd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libpam-fprintd is already the newest version (1.94.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

victor@victorgg-lenovor7:~$ fprintd-enroll -f right-index-finger
Impossible to enroll: GDBus.Error:net.reactivated.Fprint.Error.NoSuchDevice: No devices available

[Sunny2014]

Dear All,
I stepped over this, maybe still helpful. I had similar issues after installing libpam-fprintd and fprintd. In my case, I had to install additionally libfprint-2-2 and libfprint-2-tod1 for getting the fingerprint reader to work.

Best regards
Sunny

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victor@victorgg-lenovor7:~$ apt search fprint
i   fprintd                          - D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access 
p   fprintd-doc                      - development documentation for fprintd      
p   gir1.2-fprint-2.0                - async fingerprint library of fprint project
i   libfprint-2-2                    - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-dev                  - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-doc                  - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-tod-dev              - async fingerprint library of fprint project
p   libfprint-2-tod1                 - async fingerprint library of fprint project
i   libpam-fprintd                   - PAM module for fingerprint authentication t

[eplm]

In my case I also get the 'No device' message. To be honest, my device number is not listed, but since there are so many ELAN numbers already there, I thought I would gamble. Alas. Any chance for ELAN 04f3:0c00 to become supported any time soon?