Facial recognition on Bazzite
I did a bit of searching online, I couldn't find a clear answer as to whether Bazzite supports a Windows Hello-esque IR facial recognition feature or not.
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There is a github project https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy which was last updated 9 months ago and the last build was in 2020. So I think the chances of Windows Hello IR facial recognition working in Bazzite, let alone any modern version of Linux, are pretty slim.
GitHub
GitHub - boltgolt/howdy: 🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authenticat...
🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux - boltgolt/howdy
Works fine, I use it on Bazzite
But you do need to manually install + configure it
Universal Blue
Linux Howdy - Windows Hello Camera Login
Can we get his added to the base image? I tried installing via a Fedora distrobox and the box does not have access to the hardware camera and it fails to setup the auth. Plus I also wonder is the box has the nessicary PAM access to support OS authentication. I can’t find an easy way to install it from a COPR via rpm-ostree.
Should note it's not as good
Kind of mom: we have windows hello at home
Not sure if something changed, but for the past few months, it's been extremely reliable for me.
But I also only use it for login, not sudo or anything else
I've ran into a roadblock. I see the system isn't creating a folder for howdy in /lib64/security. So far, down the wiki trail, this is the stopping point I've hit.
sudo howdy test - works
sudo howdy add - works, gives verbose comfirmation it completed
at the login page, or in terminal doing a "sudo -i" it doesn't work.
Using a Logitech Brio. IR is working fine, I see it light up, and the test shows it working fine.
did you install howdy beta?
howdy beta puts config files in
/etc, which is writable
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/principis/howdy-beta/yeah, i used that one, per the wiki's suggestion
ooooh, I was just on the copr documentation for howdy, not howd-beta, which requried some different things....ok
thank you! I'll try these steps now
thoughts?
I ran a "sudo -i" this was the first time the IR lit up upon testing login
I ended up just doing multiple "sudo howdy add" and looking all directions.
WORKED with "sudo -i"
lock screen worked.
rebooted, login screen did not
added the KDE suggested lines
are you on gnome?
KDE
hrmm, let me double check on my device
no error when I do
sudo -i
and lock screen works perfectly fine
let me try a reboot just to make surehmm... do I need to do the SDDM stuff in combination with the KDE
so after reboot, the initial login screen is not supposed to work with howdy. you need to login at least once via password.
or at least, that's my understandign of it
lock screen should work after initial login
ahh, ok, if that's the plan then...boo 🙂
which is what i'm seeing on my device
so is everything else working for you?
i also don't see that buffered writer error
Yep, so far
Thank you!