feat(fingerprint): password OR fingerprint in parallel at one prompt
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Bernardo promoted the PROPOSED item live: with fingerprint PAM on,
sudo/login should accept whichever factor comes first instead of
pam_fprintd's wait-for-the-reader-then-password. Stock PAM cannot
express parallel factors (linux-pam#301), so this packages
pam-fprint-grosshack v0.3.0 (pkgs/, pinned from GitLab — the
field-standard fprintd fork), source-reviewed before packaging: every
failure path (no reader, no prints, fprintd absent/hung, timeout,
password typed) returns PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL and falls through; a
typed password is only ferried via PAM_AUTHTOK to the stock
`auth sufficient pam_unix.so … try_first_pass` rule — the module never
validates passwords itself, so it cannot lock out password login.

New option nomarchy.hardware.fingerprint.parallel, default TRUE (the
better UX is what opting into fingerprint PAM buys; false = stock
sequential). Wiring swaps the modulePath of stock fprintd's rule slot
(mkForce) so the sufficient-before-pam_unix ordering is inherited, not
recomputed. README + downstream template rows added.

Verified: V2 — checks.hardware-toggles extended to three nodes, green:
parallel node asserts the grosshack auth line precedes pam_unix in
/etc/pam.d/sudo and that with NO reader a correct password still
passes sudo while a wrong one fails (the lockout-safety invariant);
seqpam node gets stock pam_fprintd and no grosshack; nopam gets
neither. flake check + option-docs + template-sot green.
V3 pending (HARDWARE-QUEUE, AMD dev box): the real type-or-touch race,
fprintd-stopped fallback, hyprlock/greeter after a fingerprint win.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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the re-lit panel. If that happens on hardware, the "Laptop screen
off" row needs a rework (mirror instead of disable, or drop until
a Hyprland bump) — file it as a NOW bug with the coredump.
- [ ] **Parallel fingerprint-or-password on the real reader** (AMD dev
box, 2026-07-12) — with a finger enrolled and
`fingerprint.pam = true` (parallel is the default): `sudo -k true`
must show ONE prompt ("Enter Password or Place finger…"); typing
the password immediately works, touching the sensor instead works,
wrong-finger ×3 falls back to password, and password keeps working
with fprintd stopped (`systemctl stop fprintd`). Also check
hyprlock and the greeter accept both factors and don't wedge on a
leftover prompt after a fingerprint win (known cosmetic quirk of
the hack — pthread_cancel'd prompt). `fingerprint.parallel = false`
must restore the old sequential behavior. VM already asserts the
PAM stack shape + password-only lockout safety with no reader
(checks.hardware-toggles).
- [ ] **#55 fingerprint enroll on real reader** — with
`nomarchy.hardware.fingerprint.enable` and a physical reader: System
Fingerprint Enroll a finger; List shows it; Verify succeeds; optional