fprintd(1)

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/

SEE ALSO

gnome-control-center