I have downloaded and installed the libfprint fingerprint API. Everything works ok but there is one snag, it will only detect my fingerprint scanner when I run applications using sudo.
This is puzzling because I have libfprint on another machine which works fine without sudo (maybe version 0.5).
Anyhow, I have no option but to develop on this current machine (Ubuntu 12.04 64bit). The problem is that I am developing an application which uses the library in Eclipse. This means I have to run Eclipse as Sudo which I am aware is a bad idea. Does anybody know how I can make the library accessible without being root? Thanks.
Found the solution here. Hope this helps somebody !