I have installed fprintd but still not able to see anything related to fingerprint in System Settings. There’s no tut on how to do this is KDE.
$ lsusb | grep FingerPrint
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 27c6:538d Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. FingerPrint
@ricklinux Thanks a lot. I know about this project. But what about kde 5.24 integrated fingerprint support?
@PeterRies Can you guide a little here or I have to used fprint only?
There are a large number of devices that don’t work with lifprint. Not sure about this feature. I can’t test it right now. Here is a list of possible unsupported devices for fprint. Drivers may become available or not. 
https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html
Edit:
It is my understanding you press enter on the login screen and then use fingerprint.
Edit2: Need to edit
/etc/pam.d/sddm
auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so
auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
auth substack password-auth
-auth optional pam_kwallet.so
auth include postlogin
Edit3: Could also be maybe?
auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
auth include system-login
account include system-login
password include system-login
session include system-login
Edit4: You may only need to add auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
Every distribution the sddm is not going to be exactly the same. This is just what i read.
Edit5: Best to follow the Arch wiki here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fprint#Installation
Yes you are right. My reader on a latest 2021 dell inspiron 15 laptop isn’t supported. Typical linux problem.
Thanks a lot for your time.
As I’ve been mentioned and raised a similar question before…
First I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 that needed a BIOS update in mid 2020 some weeks after it came to market.
After this fingerprint reader was detected.
Now with endeavour I installed “fprintd” and modified two files in /etc/pam.d (first two lines matter)
For fprint with sudo I have:
$ cat /etc/pam.d/sudo
#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok
auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
session include system-auth
For lockscreen unlock I have:
$ cat /etc/pam.d/kde
#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok
auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so
auth include system-login
account include system-login
password include system-login
session include system-login
then you’ll get the fingerprint AFTER pressing “Enter”. I tried the “aur/pam-fprint-grosshack” package that should provide Keyboard AND fprint at the same time but that didn’t work…
SDDM is being skipped with autologin on my machine as I’m the only user and the whole system is fully encrypted so asking for a login password doesn’t make sense imho.
@PeterRies Thanks a lot for repying. My question is if this method works even if the driver is not in supported list??
lsusb | grep FingerPrint
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 27c6:538d Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. FingerPrint
Also what’s all the fingerprint stuff in kde 5.24. can’t find it anywhere in settings only in the articles.
Thanks a lot.
I was looking for the place where magic happens as well when 5.24 was released.
If your device gets detected you can install fprintd and then go to settings → users(!).
After selecting your user you should see a button “Configure Fingerprint Authentication” where you can enroll fingers via GUI.
If you haven’t got this button your hardware might not be supported.
Confusing for me was that after enrolling my fingerprints there it wasn’t of any use unless I added my lines (see abouve) in some files in /etc/pam.d
Screenshot from user interface (German GUI) where button should be…
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