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how to disable and enable fingerprint sensor on Lenovo laptop

2024-05-28

fingerprint fedora 

Since I tend to forget how to disable and re-enable the fingerprint sensor on my Lenovo Thinkpad, here’s how to do it on the shell.

WARNING: this will kill the current Wayland session!

# disable fingerprint sensor
sudo authselect disable-feature with-fingerprint

# enable fingerprint sensor
sudo authselect enable-feature with-fingerprint
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