[fprint] fprint authentication over ssh

[Vasily Khoruzhick]

On 12 July 2014 15:35:33 Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Igor,

> I have local laptop with finger scanner and have remote server.
> 
> Can I login over ssh and authorize by fingerprint?

Short answer is "no, you can't".

PAM module works on remote machine, and nowadays fprintd expects a scanner to
be present on a machine where it's running.

But in theory, you could try usb over ip, but I'm not sure if it'll work 
reliably.

Regards
Vasily