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Fedora 33: 2020-f997de7d0e Low: fprintd Authentication Fix

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant revisions for fprintd improve both security and performance in Fedora 33, introducing new password protocols and addressing numerous bugs.
Update of fprintd and libfprint

Summary

D-Bus service to access fingerprint readers.

Update of fprintd and libfprint. There are two main tests: * Check that enroll

still works (and requires a password) * Check that no other USB devices become

unusable (e.g. mouse suddenly lags until clicked) Important changes: *

Require authentication for enroll (i.e. password) * Fix race conditions in

pam_fprintd * More udev autosupsend rules * Plenty of bugfixes * New

supported hardware

* Fri Dec 11 2020 Benjamin Berg - 1.90.8-1

- Update to 1.90.8 (#1902255)

This fixes PAM not working when fprintd was just started

* Wed Dec 9 2020 Benjamin Berg - 1.90.7-1

- Update to 1.90.7 (#1902255)

Resolves: #1905667

Resolves: #1905964

* Mon Dec 7 2020 Benjamin Berg - 1.90.6-1

- Update to 1.90.6 (#1902255)

Resolves: #1904370

* Tue Dec 1 2020 Benjamin Berg - 1.90.5-1

- Update to 1.90.5 (#1902255)

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-f997de7d0e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.90.8
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: D-Bus service for Fingerprint reader access

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