plasma-face-unlock

Face ID for KDE Plasma: look at the screen and it unlocks. The lock screen, sudo and the admin prompts can take a face instead of a password, and a photo of somebody is not enough.

This page is the package repository. Set it up once and every new version arrives with the rest of your system updates. The source and the documentation are on GitHub.

Debian 13 or newer, Kubuntu 25.04 or newer

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL @BASEURL@/KEY.gpg \
  | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/plasma-face-unlock.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/plasma-face-unlock.gpg] @BASEURL@/deb ./" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plasma-face-unlock.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install plasma-face-unlock

Fedora (KDE Plasma)

sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/plasma-face-unlock.repo \
  @BASEURL@/plasma-face-unlock.repo
sudo dnf install plasma-face-unlock

Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro

paru -S plasma-face-unlock

Then, once

plasma-face-unlock

Press 1. It sets up your face (look at the camera, move your head in a circle) and turns face unlock on. sudo and the admin prompts are off until you switch them on under Settings. Run plasma-face-unlock disable before removing the package: it takes face unlock back out of sudo and polkit.