Package Details: howdy-git r586.c4521c1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/howdy-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: howdy-git
Description: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Upstream URL: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
Keywords: auth camera face hello ir windows
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: howdy
Provides: howdy
Submitter: CCF_100
Maintainer: SelfRef
Last Packager: SelfRef
Votes: 7
Popularity: 1.25
First Submitted: 2021-08-23 14:08 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-20 09:48 (UTC)

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SelfRef commented on 2025-12-23 07:11 (UTC)

After every Python version update, libraries needs to be updated as well (python-dlib and python-opencv). This is not howdy's fault.

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hour-keeper commented on 2026-03-10 07:05 (UTC) (edited on 2026-03-10 07:13 (UTC) by hour-keeper)

Please add content similar to the following:

# /etc/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper@.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
PrivateDevices=no
DeviceAllow=char-video4linux rw

Because polkit-agent-helper@.service now uses DevicePolicy=strict, this prevents pam_howdy.so from accessing the camera device. See: howdy#1077

pblague commented on 2025-12-24 01:31 (UTC)

@SelfRef Well... I tested it again and yes... I hadn't actually installed python-dlib back then because of the same error and python-opencv was already installed, but python-dlib apparently doesn't put gcc14 as their build dependency so yea... Sorry for putting it on you man, I will go and comment on their page if necessary.

Thank you for keeping it up! You're Awesome!

SelfRef commented on 2025-12-23 07:13 (UTC)

@pblague Are you sure this is an issue from this package? I see comments in python-dlib about this. Howdy itself builds just fine.

SelfRef commented on 2025-12-23 07:11 (UTC)

After every Python version update, libraries needs to be updated as well (python-dlib and python-opencv). This is not howdy's fault.

pblague commented on 2025-12-16 20:16 (UTC)

Please add gcc14 as one of the build dependencies. I kept having issues until I installed it. Thank you!

donko3005 commented on 2025-10-10 04:54 (UTC) (edited on 2025-10-10 05:01 (UTC) by donko3005)

after recent python update,it shows this 

Traceback (most recent call 
      File "/usr/lib/howdy/compare.py", line 18, in <
       import cv2
    ImportError: /usr/lib/libopencv_highgui.so.412: undefined symbol:_ZN9QtPrivate17expectedAllocSizeEmm, version Qt_6 
nknown error:

rebuilding the python3.12 package does not solve the issue,neither updating the mirrors just in case there was a recent update on that package

jieran233 commented on 2025-10-09 17:45 (UTC)

not working since fmt updated to 12.0 due to opencv cannot find libfmt.so.11

Attempting facial authentication
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/howdy/compare.py", line 18, in <module>
    import cv2
ImportError: libfmt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nknown error:

dexxfm commented on 2025-09-27 08:13 (UTC)

package works with the latest version of cachyOS (as of 9/27/25).

SelfRef commented on 2025-05-14 19:42 (UTC)

@kissuny: You need to be more specific.

  1. Did you try sudo howdy test? Does it recognize your face (green outline)?
  2. Did you configure your PAM settings correctly?

The most reliable config is to add line

auth sufficient pam_howdy.so

As first entry in /etc/pam.d/system-auth file.

kissuny commented on 2025-04-26 00:28 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-25 03:48 (UTC) by kissuny)

it works！ thanks

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