Select the finger that you want to use for the fingerprint, then Next.įollow the instructions in the dialog and swipe your finger at a moderate speed over your fingerprint reader.

If you are adding the fingerprint for a different user, you will first need to Unlock the panel. Press on Disabled, next to Fingerprint Login to add a fingerprint for the selected account. Open the Activities overview and start typing Users. On Ubuntu 20.04 was recognized automatically and to enable the login with fingerprint I simply followed the official Wiki instructions: The first thing I noticed was that the USB ID was slightly different: 04f3:0c28 instead of 04f3:0c26, but luckily it is still inside the supported device list. Today I finally got it and I am happy to say that it seems to work better than what I was expecting! After some more googling I found that it actually works and so I decided to order one. The reviewer didn't say if was actually working but was so kind to type the USB ID of the reader: 04f3:0c26. Last week I started another research and, finally, I found an Amazon review in German for a Benss USB Fingerprint Reader (UA002). I searched online many times to find a review of a USB reader that just works out-of-the-box on Linux but all I was able to find was information about the one embedded in notebooks. I was looking for something like this for years: I use fingerprint authentication on my smartphone since 2015 and I was looking to do the same on my home computer (read the premise to know why this is not good idea for security reasons).

I finally found a cheap USB fingerprint reader that works out of the box on my Ubuntu 20.04 installation! They are great UIDs, but are terrible passwords: they can be forced, faked, and can't be changed. Premise: Fingerprints are not secure, they are just biometric ID.

Ubuntu fingerprint reader