pam_facial_auth

A pluggable authentication module that relies on facial recognition to verify the user attempting to gain access. Looks for a match between username and label associated with the recognized face.

Requirements

• OpenCV 4 including contrib module
• PAM devel

Quickstart

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/custom82/pam_facial_auth.git

Build and install facial auth module

• cd pam_facial_auth
• mkdir build
• cmake ..
• make
• make install

How it Work

• Configure /etc/security/pam_facial.conf with opencv haar xml and other paramenter

• Capture Face Images

facial_capture -u user -d /dev/video0 -g -n 500 -v more images you capture more efficiently is authentication

• Train your images

facial_training -u user -i /etc/pam_facial_auth/images/user -m lpbh -v

• Test Authentication

facial_test -u user -n -v

• Add pam_facial_auth to your pam stack

example auth pam_facial_auth.so debug=true nogui=true

Legal Information

pam_facial_auth is released under the GNU GPL 3