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Validity fingerprint sensor prototype
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Can't login anymore #148

Open bckelley opened 2 years ago

bckelley commented 2 years ago

Shutdown my laptop last night turned it on this morning and the fingerprint reader doesn't working keeps saying 'login failed' please advice

Sesam31 commented 1 year ago

I'm also having the same issue. I tried a clean reinstall of python validity and successfully re-enrolled the fingerprint but it still always says login failed.

snoogie2k commented 1 year ago

For me the first login always fails, I have to use my password, after that everything is fine...

snoogie2k commented 1 year ago

okay, so I found the reason why I got stuck in a "login-loop" when starting the first time:

I have an encrypted home-dir and the fingerprint login does not work for the first time because my password/passphrase is needed to decyrpt my home... When I logged in for the first time successfully I can use the fingerprint reader just fine.

CosmicChrisss commented 1 year ago

okay, so I found the reason why I got stuck in a "login-loop" when starting the first time:

I have an encrypted home-dir and the fingerprint login does not work for the first time because my password/passphrase is needed to decyrpt my home... When I logged in for the first time successfully I can use the fingerprint reader just fine.

I'm in the same boat, did you ever find a workaround?

Edit: Okay I figured out a partial workaround by doing 'ecryptfs-mount-private'

I searched online for similar solutions so that I wouldn't have to do this every-time I log in for example doing

ecryptfs-rewrap-passphrase /home/my_user/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase

But to no avail.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. This issue has taken up a large part of my time and sanity.