fprintd is a daemon that provides fingerprint scanning functionality over D-Bus. This is the software developers will want to integrate with to add fingerprint authentication to OSes, desktop environments and applications. It also includes small command-line utilities if your desktop environment does not integrate support. A PAM module to implement user login (pam_fprintd) is available. To enable it add these lines on top of /etc/pam.d/sddm: auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so And /etc/pam.d/kde: auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so