IBM USB Fingerprint reader to secure database access

I bought an IBM USB Fingerprint reader. I want to use it to authenticate a user for database access. When some one tries to access a database, his ID should be provided and then his fingerprint should be matched with an already stored fingerprint. I do not know how to configure the device. Searching the internet did not give me any useful resut. Anyone out there please help. I am doing the programming in php to access a database through the web.
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Hello everybody, i want to do the same as mlmn, i also have some ideas just need extra information, thanks in advance.

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Hello,
I don't know the answer to your question. Also, I'm not a biometrics expert. But I am presently reading a book Security and Usability which has got some excellant stuff about biometrics. iirc then it has following text somewhere which is worth noting:

"Biometrics provides a false sense of security"

Don't use fingerprints to authenticate access to some resource, as fingers can be cut and some malicious user can then access your database (Here's a example).

AmbrNewlearner

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Really good fingerprint readers can also detect a heartbeat pulse; dead fingers don't show a pulse. Of course you can attach hoses and pumps that pump red coloured lemonade throught the veins of that dead finger but I think all that equipment warns security on the spot ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

ps. at least one of those Schlumberger devices apply that technology; I happen to know that.