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Let's sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2017-09-20 · latest 2022-06-15

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  1. …access to other windows. If you're on Windows and want WSL with Windows Hello, there's this tool: https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo which is a PAM library that will call into Windows Hello from WSL. Windows Hello should in turn…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2022-06-15 · in Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)
  2. This is a similar project for WSL. I love it. https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo
    comment by willis936 · 2022-06-15 · in Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)
  3. …running Bash, but are the icons PNGs (windows + home), or a specific type-face rendering emoji? https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo/blob/master/de...
    comment by rhplus · 2021-03-02 · in WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux
  4. Similarly for WSL2 using Windows Hello: https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo
    comment by oezi · 2021-03-01 · in Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac