This is a small POC for authenticating in Linux Desktop using your Android Mobile's Fingerprint scanner
Note: Works only on UNIX based system which has PAM Modules
- Install Python PAM module by running this command
sudo apt-get install libpam-python - Edit /etc/pam.d/common-auth and enter following line in the top of the file auth sufficient pam_python.so /path/to/pam.py
- Compile the MobileAuthPOC mobile app and install it in your android phone (Make sure you enter a proper IPAddress of your Linux Machine)
- Create a new File named webauth.service in /etc/systemd/system and Enter following lines in it
[Unit]
Description=WEB Auth service
[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/authserver.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
You can Enable the webauth service using
sudo service webauth enable
sudo service webauth start
Now start MobileAuthPOC app in your device and test it by opening a terminal and typing sudo -i