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add a keybind to bypass howdy

Open KotonBads opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

add a keybind while trying to authenticate to bypass face recognition in case something wrong happens (ie, camera not turning on but not throwing an error)

KotonBads avatar Apr 19 '23 14:04 KotonBads

why this? after the camera timeout howdy will ask you for the password

etx2 avatar Apr 20 '23 16:04 etx2

that is if it times out, idk why but recently (after using /dev/video0 instead of /dev/video1) it just doesn't time out, no camera light or anything too

KotonBads avatar Apr 20 '23 16:04 KotonBads

which distro do you use?

etx2 avatar Apr 20 '23 16:04 etx2

It's a good proposal, holding the escape key has been proposed before but not yet implemented: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/713#issuecomment-1297202231

If someone wants to implement that on the dev branch they are very welcome to

boltgolt avatar Apr 23 '23 12:04 boltgolt

yeah, I got locked out of my system

also I think droidcam or obs is using /dev/video0 for a virtual camera so it didn't throw an error and let me type in my password?

KotonBads avatar Apr 23 '23 12:04 KotonBads

Sorry I don't understand your problem. If you set howdy in pam configuration as "sufficient" it will check your face but if error incurred (i.e. time out) it will ask you a password. Why you need a key for bypass it

etx2 avatar Apr 23 '23 13:04 etx2