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fprintd is a daemon to offer libfprint functionality over D-Bus.
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API use cases:
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- User wants to use the fingerprint reader, and enroll
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his fingerprints, or remove some fingerprints from the database
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- Administrator wants to enroll fingerprints for a particular user,
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or remove fingerprints for a particular user
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- Laptop/desktop authentication:
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* Check for fingerprint devices
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* Check whether a particular user has any fingerprints enrolled
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* Verify a fingerprint for a particular user, or, if the device
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supports it, verify that the fingerprint matches against
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any of the fingerprints enrolled
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- Point Of Sale authentication (in a bar, the fingerprint reader is
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used to see who accesses a particular point of sale/till, in place
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of PIN code authentication and/or tokens)
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* Given a list of users, verify which one has scanned their finger
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