gaze-gnome-extension<\/code> (for GNOME desktop), then click open & install via your system software app, e.g., App Center for Ubuntu 24.04\/26.04, Gnome Software for Fedora Workstation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/download-gaze-700x446.webp\")
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After installed the tool, restart computer.<\/b><\/p>\n
Then, you may open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below to check if the daemon is running actively:<\/p>\n
systemctl status gazed<\/pre>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gazed-daemon-700x424.webp\")
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Then, launch Gaze GUI for the graphical interface to add your face ID, configure security level. While, advanced users may run gaze --help<\/code> and do them in command line.<\/p>\nNOTE: Higher security level may cause more authentication failures.<\/i><\/p>\n
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After added your face ID, launch “Gnome Extensions” or “Extension Manager” (both available in Ubuntu App Center, Fedora Gnome Software), enable gaze extension and enable facial authentication for lock screen its preferences.<\/p>\n
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Known issues and Workarounds<\/h3>\n
1.<\/b> For Debian and Ubuntu, the 0.1.0<\/b> version incorrectly built the pam-gaze<\/code> module libraries into \/lib\/${MULTIARCH}<\/code>, which causes the facial authentication not function.<\/p>\nTo workaround the issue, run command to move them to the correct place:<\/p>\n
sudo mv \/usr\/lib\/\\$\\{MULTIARCH\\}\/security\/* \/usr\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/security\/<\/pre>\n2.<\/b> Also for Debian and Ubuntu, the priority of gaze module (version 0.1.0) is lower than the default password authentication. Meaning it will always ask for password authentication first, if failed, it then fall back to gaze facial authentication.<\/b><\/p>\n
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To workaround the issue, try configuring the \/usr\/share\/pam-configs\/gaze<\/code> file and set priority to higher than 256 (e.g., 260).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fix-priority-700x500.webp\")
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Finally, re-run sudo pam-auth-update<\/code> and make sure “Gaze Face Authentication” goes before the “Unix authentication”, finally restart computer to apply changes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to use your face to sign in or run process that needs authentication in your computer? There’s a new project to do the job in Linux! It’s Gaze, a free open-source Rust written app that provides simple GTK4 + libadwaita user interface for managing facial authentication, while, a CLI tool is also available for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2039],"class_list":["post-51221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app-review","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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