Giuseppe Cacciato

I have also same problem, just create a symlink, your suggestion @Ozy-Viking is the way but for me do not work without use the -s option `sudo ln -s /lib/security/howdy/cli.py...

You can disable the externally-managed-environment (it is improved in the latest version of python). rename -this file /usr/lib/python3.x/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED and after install howdy.

> I am also seeing the above on Debian bookworm. Temporarily moving away `/usr/lib/python3.11/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED` helped "fix" the problem (but bear in mind that this clearly feels like the "wrong" way...

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

which distro do you use?

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 must install dlib from pip `pip install dlib`

what the return of `pip show dlib` if u have newer version of debian you can't install whitout disable the externally-managed-environment (this is marked as default for security) please show...

try to remove it and install manually via pip install dlib. I have also installed this python3-full in my sistem from apt. My running version is different from yours and...