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- #LENOVO T460S FINGERPRINT SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 UPDATE#
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- #LENOVO T460S FINGERPRINT SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#
The ugly part is that if you want to use the password, you’ll need the fingerprint scan to fail 3 times.įinally, I’d like to thank the devs who made this terrific job and keep improving this and other drivers. with loginctl lock-session command) you can press Return and touch the fingerprint sensor to unlock. To enable this in KDE Plasma, add the same line to the top of /etc/pam.d/kde. What I do use fingerprint reader for is to unlock the screen. If you don’t (which I recommend against by the way, especially on a laptop), adding this line on top of /etc/pam.d/sddm should enable fingerprint authentication (if you use SDDM, of course): auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so max-tries=3 I’m using home partition encryption, so I have to type in a password on every boot to decrypt the partition. Try to cover all possible finger positions and don’t remove finger too quickly after each step. You’ll be asked to enroll your finger several times. $ fprintd-enroll -f "right-index-finger" "$USER"
#LENOVO T460S FINGERPRINT SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
The rest is easy: just follow the Readme to install the Linux driver and make sure it works by enrolling a finger and verifying it:
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After a reboot, the drivers were successfully installed and it was sufficient to proceed. I’ve extracted only the fingerprint driver and put it here, give it a try if you use Windows 7 64-bit and don’t want to download the whole package. So I’ve downloaded a huge SCCM driver package, installed it and pointed Windows to look for drivers there.
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The installer would just quit with “Lenovo machines: Lenovo Touch Fingerprint Software cannot be installed on this machine. I’ve ran into trouble when trying to install official fingerprint reader drivers from Lenovo website. Then go to virtual machine settings | USB and add “Validity Sensors, Inc.” device to the list. If not, you’ll need a Windows Virtualbox instance with USB pass-through enabled and Extension pack installed. If you have already used the reader before, chances are you’re good to go. Thus far this can only be done in Windows. The worst part of the procedure is to activate the device. UPD: Looks like now you can initialize the reader directly in Linux! The procedure to make it work is not very straightforward, so I’ve decided to document it here for posterity.įirst, let’s make sure we have the proper model of the reader:īus 001 Device 006: ID 138a:0090 Validity Sensors, Inc. Thankfully, Nikita Mikhailov started reverse engineering these sensors and that work has been adapted by Marco Trevisan to create a functional fprint driver for 2016 ThinkPads (including T460s). You know the story: the manufacturer (Validity, later bought by Synaptic) refuses to release the documentation and says they may release proprietary Linux driver someday. While you’re at it, you can check out all of Lenovo’s security advisories here to make sure you’re not exposed.Lenovo ThinkPad T460s laptop has a built-in fingerprint reader, but unfortunately until recently there was no way to make it work. You can download it here, and then install it as soon as you can to make sure your sensitive data remains protected.
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Go update the Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro utility today. ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Type 20A7, 20A8), X1 Carbon (Type 20BS, 20BT).In early 2016, the Lenovo Fingerprint Manager and Touch Fingerprint Software utilities were vulnerable to a local privilege escalation that allows users to gain administrator rights when running applications. This isn’t the first time that Lenovo’s fingerprint software has suffered from a lapse in security.
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If you’re using Windows 10 Hello on a Lenovo system, therefore, you have nothing to worry about. It is important to note that Windows 10 machines are unaffected, thanks to Microsoft’s built-in fingerprint reader support. As Lenovo indicates in a recent support bulletin, versions of the utility older than 8.01.87 are vulnerable to attack thanks to a weak algorithm and a hard-coded password - leaving sensitive data accessible to any user with local non-administrative access to a machine. It’s also what makes it so disturbing when there is a flaw in those systems, as was recently the case with Lenovo’s Fingerprint Manager Pro software.įingerprint Manager Pro is a Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 utility that enables the fingerprint scanner on certain Lenovo systems to match a user’s fingerprint and use it to log into the machine as well as to authenticate to websites without needing to type in a password. That is what makes recent advances in biometric security, such as fingerprint scanners and facial recognition, so welcome. All kinds of nefarious parties want to break into our machines and access our most vital personal and professional information. Matt Smith/Digital TrendsThere is a lot of bad news lately when it comes to the security of our PCs and other devices.