Howdy (windows hello replacement)

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Does anybody has managed to install Howdy to get face recognition enabled? I can´t find the package in the repo´s stable and unstable. Thanks in advance.

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This? GitHub - boltgolt/howdy: 🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux

Seems it is not yet packaged. It would also need a module for proper PAM integration.

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There is nixos/howdy: init by fufexan · Pull Request #216245 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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is now in unstable since 2 weeks

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Seen that yeah, but as I’m a noob in NixOS and in PAM stuff, is there a tutorial for what’s needed? I see there’s securitysettings and some with <name> and I have no clue on what to put in these

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Worse, in configuration.nix I added:

  services = {
    howdy.enable = true;
    linux-enable-ir-emitter.enable = true;
# ...
};

 security = {
   pam.howdy.enable = true;
 };

and sudo didn’t recognised my password any more, had to revert generation to get hold on my system again.