You've probably seen/heard about the sophistication technology that accessing computers using face authentication? face is scanned through a video camera and if the face was recognizable in the database then you will be able to access computers or go into the room they will be.
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Now with ubuntu technology we can do it, some requirements that must be filled is in your computer must have a video camera / webcam and some library tobe install. How to make automatic login using face authentication, follow step bellow :
Add the PPA repository and Update
Add the PPA repository and Update
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:antonio.chiurazzi/ppa && sudo apt-get update
Install the Ubuntu Face Authentication / Face Recognition Library
- sudo apt-get install pam-face-authentication
Tweak and Edit The System
Now to add the face authentication module to GDM, Ubuntu's default login-manager:
Now to add the face authentication module to GDM, Ubuntu's default login-manager:
- sudo sed -i '1i auth sufficient pam_face_authentication.so enableX' /etc/pam.d/gdm
- sudo sed -i '1i auth sufficient pam_face_authentication.so enableX' /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver
Depending on your webcam model/make you may need to install and add libv4l to preload:
Go to System > Administration > Users and Groups, change the password to Asked to login
Go to System > Administration > Login Screen, choose "Show the Screen for choosing who will log in", whis action will disable automatic login.
- Create the file /etc/ld.so.preload
- Paste in the path to the v4l1compat.so file commonly found in /usr/lib/libv4l
Go to System > Administration > Users and Groups, change the password to Asked to login
Go to System > Administration > Login Screen, choose "Show the Screen for choosing who will log in", whis action will disable automatic login.
Done, you can logoff the system and test face authentication login in your ubuntu.