{"slug": "building-faceid-nim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and", "title": "Building FaceID@NIM: Exploring Facial Authentication on Ubuntu with Rust, C, and Python", "summary": "A developer has released FaceID@NIM (Neural Identity Matching), an experimental open-source facial authentication system for Ubuntu/GNOME built with Rust, C, and Python. The pre-alpha project focuses on secure failure handling, aiming to ensure that daemon crashes, camera failures, and liveness timeouts never result in successful authentication. The developer is seeking feedback from the Linux community on PAM architecture, security weaknesses, and testing priorities.", "body_md": "FaceID@NIM (Neural Identity Matching), an experimental, open-source facial authentication system for Ubuntu/GNOME using Rust, C, and Python.\n\n🔗 GitHub: [https://github.com/Gaurav-x111/faceid-nim](https://github.com/Gaurav-x111/faceid-nim)\n\nWhat's inside?\n\nThe main challenge\n\nI'm focusing on secure failure handling: daemon crashes, camera failures, liveness timeouts, and ensuring errors never result in successful authentication.\n\n🚧 Status: Pre-alpha, experimental, and not production-ready.\n\nI'd appreciate feedback from the Linux community, especially on PAM architecture, security weaknesses, and testing priorities.\n\nWhat failure cases would you test first?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-faceid-nim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/zang7777/building-faceidnim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and-python-67l", "published_at": "2026-10-25 12:38:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-25 12:42:51.266449+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["FaceID@NIM", "Ubuntu", "GNOME", "Rust", "Python", "PAM"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-faceid-nim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-faceid-nim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-faceid-nim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-faceid-nim-exploring-facial-authentication-on-ubuntu-with-rust-c-and.jsonld"}}