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Old 6th November 2009
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As has been mentioned before, there is support for some fingerprint readers via 3rd party devel/libusb based projects.. libfprint.

If you check the ports tree, there is an example fingerprint authentication port.. allowing you to login using a fingerprint (..biometrics is just a fad, it's not truly secure).

For the adventurous, see security/libfprint and sysutils/login_fingerprint.

You should also check their homepage, they have some utilties that haven't been ported.. but should still compile.

http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page

Note; ugen(4) is a driver that all devices attach to if no other driver can.. it's a generic fallthrough device, libusb based programs can only access ugen(4) devices.

Hope that helps.
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