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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

I am looking for a facial recognition program that I could use to log in to my account. I have heard of Pam Face Recognition, but there does not appear to be a package for Ubuntu 12.04, and the PPA has been inactive for a while now.

Are there any alternatives that I could use?

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If you get this working test to see if a photo can be used to bypass it. – Tom Brossman Jun 24 '12 at 6:37
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Possible duplicate ? askubuntu.com/questions/83426/login-via-face-detection – pl1nk Jun 24 '12 at 12:46
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I wouldn't count it as a duplicate since (as the OP notes) the solution to that post points to an inactive PPA, plus the solution only works for GDM not LightDM. – jackweirdy Jun 24 '12 at 17:30
You can try if your system is compatible or not. Goto: pam-face-authentication.org/downloads.php – Lucio Jun 24 '12 at 23:15
Why would you want that? A printed facebook profile picture of you would be the key to your computer... – Stephan Schielke Jul 1 '12 at 22:42

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You could take a look at KeyLemon. They have some sort of a thing going that was built for Ubuntu 10.04, but it looks like only Windows and Mac are officially supported right now. But if you want to try something other than PAM, this could be one alternative.

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This is not an answer! – Naveen Oct 22 '12 at 7:27
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It's not for linux. – shantanu Mar 22 at 13:53
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http://lkubuntu.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/pam-face-authentication/

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This is just a link to a blog post about PAM face authentication, which, as I mention in my question, is unmaintained. – Aaron Jul 8 '12 at 1:45
12.04 has issues with pam-face-authentication. See here. – abhshkdz Jul 11 '12 at 12:53
Note: I haven't tested this yet. – PyRulez Jul 11 '12 at 15:25
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This might help.

http://www.noobslab.com/2011/06/facial-recognition-ubuntu.html

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12.04 has issues with pam-face-authentication. See here. – abhshkdz Jul 11 '12 at 12:54

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