[fprint] 5 enrolls --> does 6 and breaks with error -22

Jonas Jelten jelten at in.tum.de
Mon Jun 18 08:07:33 PDT 2012


> Hey, root can do everything and with sudo you're providing root
> privileges to the process
> you're invoking.

I can enroll my fingerprint and update the database _without_ sudo
or under root. So any user not knowing my pam password can update
my fingerprint.
When he then invokes a pam-program which uses pam-fprintd.so
(e.g. sudo, su) he can enroll _his_ fingerprint and pass authentication.




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