From f7ae545dc9f64a50322c9061e8c37cb8c03ab08a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bastien Nocera Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:36:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a few use cases to the README Will be useful when people try to do crazy things with fprintd --- README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 8c98977..3e84608 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,3 +10,19 @@ Written in C. Requires bleeding edge libfprint (libusb-1.0 port). Licensed under the GPL version 2 (see COPYING). +API use cases +============= + +- User wants to use the fingerprint reader, and enroll + his fingerprints + +- Administrator wants to enroll fingerprints for a particular user + +- Laptop/desktop authentication: + * pam module wants to check whether a particular user + has any fingerprints enrolled + * pam module wants to ask a user to verify a fingerprint + +- Point Of Sale authentication: + * Given a list of users, verify which one has scanned their finger +