

The matte black case is made of a soft plastic material that's wrapped around a very solid chassis-there's no flex or bend to it.

They're solid, well-constructed, no-nonsense machines made for day-in, day-out use, and the X1 Carbon is no exception.Īll the usual ThinkPad standouts are here, including a great keyboard with the red "nub," a trackpad with the buttons at the top (where they belong), a fingerprint reader, and a hardware cover for the webcam. If the user does not authenticate with a fingerprint, a usual password authentication is requested by sudo after a timeout.Lenovo's ThinkPad series laptops are not notable for their cutting-edge design. Now, sudo will request fingerprint authentication. To enable fingerprint authentication with sudo, runĪnd enable the "Fingerprint authentication" profile by checking the corresponding checkbox and then pressing "OK" (see Screenshot pam-auth-update). Other helpful commands are fprintd-list fprintd-delete. You can also verify if your fingerprint was enrolled correctly by running The normal password login will still be available.

GDM, for example, will display "(or swipe finger)" under the password field when prompting for user password. To each correctly registered touch, the program will react with a line like the followingĬontinue touching the sensor, placing your finger under a different angle each time, until the program reports Enroll result: enroll-completed and quits.Īt this point, you should be able to login in your display manager (GDM or LightDM) using your right index finger. Start touching (or swiping, depending on your device type) the sensor with your right index finger. Using device /net/reactivated/Fprint/Device/0 When you see something like the following lines in the terminal output If the CLI command is run without any arguments as shown next, it will request the current user's password and after a successful authentication will start enrolling the right index finger. Install packages fprintd (for managing fingerprints) and libpam-fprintd (for enabling fingerprint log in)įingerprints can be added by running fprintd-enroll CLI command in a terminal or by using GNOME's Settings GUI. Fingerprint authentication is available in Debian through the fprint project.
