Fingerprint Login on Domain Machine

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a laptop that needs to stay on my University's domain, and I just
recently bought Microsoft's Wireless Intellimouse with Fingerprint Reader
Combo. The fingerprint scanner works great while I'm in Windows, but because
I'm on a Domain, I cannot use the device to log into my machine.

I'm at an engineering school, and one of my friends told me that it should
be physically possible to move the Fingerprint Reader API in the boot
sequence so that it is actually started before the login screen, and would
thus work on a Domain-connected machine.

So really, starting from square one, I have a fingerprint scanner, and I
would REALLY like to use it to log in, except I'm on a domain. There has got
to be a way to enable it somehow, so I need everyone's help!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Sorry, but the Microsoft FingerPrint Reader was
not designed to be used to log on to a domain.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Hello,
|
| I have a laptop that needs to stay on my University's domain, and I just
| recently bought Microsoft's Wireless Intellimouse with Fingerprint Reader
| Combo. The fingerprint scanner works great while I'm in Windows, but because
| I'm on a Domain, I cannot use the device to log into my machine.
|
| I'm at an engineering school, and one of my friends told me that it should
| be physically possible to move the Fingerprint Reader API in the boot
| sequence so that it is actually started before the login screen, and would
| thus work on a Domain-connected machine.
|
| So really, starting from square one, I have a fingerprint scanner, and I
| would REALLY like to use it to log in, except I'm on a domain. There has got
| to be a way to enable it somehow, so I need everyone's help!

 

[Guest]

Carey,

Thanks for the very unhelpful response. I specifically acknowledged that
this mouse was not able to log into a machine on a domain. I do not
appreciate your authoritative, quick, snappy response. If you would have
read my post more clearly, you would have noticed that I'm looking for a way
to change how Windows recognizes the device. My understanding is that if
other hardware devices (USB Mice, Network Adapters, etc) can be launched
early enough for login, it is technically legal and feasible to use my
fingerprint scanner at login.

If you'd like to post something helpful, please do so. If not, please excuse
yourself from my thread.

 

[Kerry Brown]

When the finger print reader first came out I had a client looking for a
secure domain login without using passwords. I talked at length to a
Microsoft sales rep about the fingerprint reader. He told me that it was
easily fooled and not secure at all. It was purposely limited to home use
only. You'd have to rewrite the software from scratch.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I considered myself excused. My original
response was 100% accurate.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Carey,
|
| Thanks for the very unhelpful response. I specifically acknowledged that
| this mouse was not able to log into a machine on a domain. I do not
| appreciate your authoritative, quick, snappy response. If you would have
| read my post more clearly, you would have noticed that I'm looking for a way
| to change how Windows recognizes the device. My understanding is that if
| other hardware devices (USB Mice, Network Adapters, etc) can be launched
| early enough for login, it is technically legal and feasible to use my
| fingerprint scanner at login.
|
| If you'd like to post something helpful, please do so. If not, please excuse
| yourself from my thread.

 

[Guest]

Gareth,

This is something we have been testing in a corporate environment so I can
give you a little insight.

Whilst you may be able to move the API in the boot order it still won't
allow you to log into the machine using the finger print reader as it has to
be supported by the domain. I'm not sure what OS control's your domain but
we have tested this on AD 2003 and there is no direct support for finger
print recognition to authenticate you to the domain. To be able to
authenticate a user to the domain using finger print recognition, a third
party application was required that made changes to the AD schema in order
for finger print recognition to work. This is something that the
universities system administrator would need to implement.

Whilst Carey's reponse was short and sweet it was correct.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hello,

I have a laptop that needs to stay on my University's domain, and I just
recently bought Microsoft's Wireless Intellimouse with Fingerprint Reader
Combo. The fingerprint scanner works great while I'm in Windows, but because
I'm on a Domain, I cannot use the device to log into my machine.

I'm at an engineering school, and one of my friends told me that it should
be physically possible to move the Fingerprint Reader API in the boot
sequence so that it is actually started before the login screen, and would
thus work on a Domain-connected machine.

So really, starting from square one, I have a fingerprint scanner, and I
would REALLY like to use it to log in, except I'm on a domain. There has got
to be a way to enable it somehow, so I need everyone's help!

Unless the domain is configured to permit login via biometric devices,
you're out of luck.


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Bruce Chambers

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