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    Thinkfinger Fedora 10

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by soldier0316, Jan 16, 2009.

  1. soldier0316

    soldier0316 Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry for being a noob but I just installed thinkfinger through the terminal with the following command: yum install thinkfinger. Everything went well and the installation is complete. However, I can't find thinkfinger now and its not in Applications.. Can anyone point me to the right direction? thanks
     
    soldier0316, Jan 16, 2009
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    ktang Notebook Consultant

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    go to thinkwiki, but it usually runs in the background and you don't need to worry about it
     
    ktang, Jan 17, 2009
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    soldier0316 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for your reply.. I tested the driver and everything seems to be working. However, i am having problems configuring PAM to use Thinkfinger. When I type the command nano -w /etc/pam.d/common-auth, a window pops up. My question is how do I add this "auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so" line and save it? thanks in advance
     
    soldier0316, Jan 19, 2009
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    ktang Notebook Consultant

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    in fedora it notes in parentheses that you have to edit a different file, which is "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" see if that works
     
    ktang, Jan 19, 2009
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    I just typed what you just mentioned and it says permission is denied?!
     
    soldier0316, Jan 21, 2009
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    make sure you do it either as root, or sudo - so try "su - root" to sign in as root in the terminal, or "sudo nano -w /etc/pam.d/system-auth"
     
    ktang, Jan 23, 2009
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