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nashod

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Registered: 2012-03-23

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Facial recognition as pasword?

I was wondering if there is a way to set the display manager (in my case LDM) to connect to some facial recognition software and log me in using that, kinda like how android phones work.

Spara06

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Registered: 2014-08-28

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Re: Facial recognition as pasword?

I was wondering if there is a way to set the display manager (in my case LDM) to connect to some facial recognition software and log me in using that, kinda like how android phones work.

Hi Nashod,

I believe what you're looking for is this PAM module located in the AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pam- … ntication/

Then, run the following to configure the face authentication.

qt-facetrainer

Afterwards, you'll have to enter this line in the corresponding pam.d config file.

auth sufficient pam_face_authentication.so enableX

So for instance, if I want to use this authentication for sudo, I'd insert that at top of this file:

 /etc/pam.d/sudo 

Or in my case, if I wanted it to check my face when I log into the machine I'd have to edit this file since I'm using GNOME:

/etc/pam.d/gdm-password

This will vary depending on your Desktop Environment. I'm not sure what it is for LDM.

Good luck.

Last edited by Spara06 (2014-08-30 17:13:09)

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