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🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux

11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2021-08-06 · latest 2025-06-26

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  1. …README says that it still needs Python 2. Edit: Okay, the explanation is in this commit message: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/commit/305e42fc79ef38f66c5... . The dep on Python 2 is from Fedora's PAM module package, not from howdy…
    comment by Arnavion · 2025-06-26 · in Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
  2. https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy Never heard of similar stuff for Macs, this is Linux software. Worked fine on my ThinkPad laptop running Fedora.
    comment by ansipunk · 2022-08-27 · in Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
  3. …actually introduce a feature that allows login consent. Nod yes to authenticate, shake no to abort. https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/wiki/Rubber-Stamp-Guide#av...
    comment by Boltgolt · 2022-04-26 · in Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
  4. …sure if "does not" means can't, so I did a search and discovered this interesting development: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/pull/611
    comment by als0 · 2022-04-26 · in Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
  5. Sadly, looks like no: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/521 "Windows Hello uses the two IR emitters to generate a 3D image of your face, and is much more secure. To do this Hello lights up your face with the left emitter on even…
    comment by lhl · 2022-04-26 · in Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
  6. …types, but it turns out one of the literally five pages in the wiki covers just that: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/wiki/Only-using-howdy-for-... And for anything PAM doesn't handle, since Howdy is just a Python lib/app, it's almost…
    comment by lhl · 2022-04-26 · in Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
  7. You can though: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/wiki/Only-using-howdy-for-...
    comment by mminer237 · 2022-04-26 · in Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
  8. …[1]: Add this to the grub file : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.backlight=0" [2]: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
    comment by kentiko · 2021-08-06 · in New Laptop: Thinkpad P14s