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authorEkaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756@gmail.com>2014-06-18 19:31:39 -0400
committerEkaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756@gmail.com>2014-06-18 19:32:29 -0400
commit6a48aaa06458c10b17162190e860dd8a2d5d92da (patch)
treedd9bda14de8708bf7bc5d29b0aa4b74fd5a8fb7e
parentfbfca28edd9d3fb73b751be8ad65ac937299faf0 (diff)
downloadgnome-user-docs-6a48aaa06458c10b17162190e860dd8a2d5d92da.tar.gz
Review login-fingerprint in the sysadmin guide
-rw-r--r--system-admin-guide/C/login-fingerprint.page50
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/login-fingerprint.page b/system-admin-guide/C/login-fingerprint.page
index 2fd601fe..c2c8dd5b 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/C/login-fingerprint.page
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/login-fingerprint.page
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
- <desc></desc>
+ <desc>Prevent the user from being able to log in using a fingerprint
+ scanner.</desc>
</info>
- <title>Disable login using a fingerprint</title>
+ <title>Disallow login using a fingerprint</title>
- <p>Users whose computers have a fingerprint reader can use their fingerprints
+ <p>Users with a fingerprint scnner can use their fingerprints
instead of a password to log in. Fingerprint login
<link href="help:gnome-help#session-fingerprint">needs to be set up by the
user</link> before it can be used.</p>
@@ -37,27 +38,44 @@
<steps>
<title>Disable login using a fingerprint reader:</title>
<include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
- xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user'])"
- xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+ xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user'])"
+ xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+ <include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
+ xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user-dir'])"
+ xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<item>
- <p>Create a <sys>local</sys> database for machine-wide settings in
- <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/01-fingerprintreader</file>:
- </p>
-<code># Specify the dconf path
+ <p>Create the key file
+ <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-login</file> to provide
+ information for the <sys>local</sys> database.</p>
+ <listing>
+ <title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-login</file></title>
+<code>
+# Specify the dconf path
[org/gnome/login-screen]
# Disable fingerprint reader
-enable-fingerprint-authentication="false"</code>
+enable-fingerprint-authentication=false
+</code>
+ </listing>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Override the user's setting and prevent the user from changing it in
- <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/fingerprintreader</file>:</p>
- <code># List the keys used to configure login
-/org/gnome/login-screen/enable-fingerprint-authentication</code>
+ <p>To prevent the user from overriding these settings, create the file
+ <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/login</file> with the following
+ content:</p>
+ <listing>
+ <title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/fingerprintreader</file></title>
+<code>
+# List the keys used to configure login
+/org/gnome/login-screen/enable-fingerprint-authentication
+</code>
+ </listing>
</item>
<include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
- xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-update'])"
- xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+ xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-update'])"
+ xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+ <include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
+ xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-logoutin'])"
+ xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</steps>
</page>