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Take webcam pictures of failed logins  
Written by nelson.blaha the 17 Sep 08 at 06:44. Related project: Cheese. New
When a login fails, have the webcam take a picture so that the culprit might be identified.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #13331
Written by nelson.blaha the 17 Sep 08 at 06:44.
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Add security to login process and sytem accountablity  
Written by axx the 29 Sep 09 at 07:00. Global category: Security. New
If you login on tty1, you are informed of failed login attempts since your last successful.

This sort of information can be useful.

Taking this further, and going back to this hack on OS X (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006120918170984), it could be an interesting idea to add an option to the login manager to warn you of failed connection attempts on your account and offer to capture pictures via the webcam on login failures (it clearly makes most sense on laptops).

This could be taken further by having the photo e-mailed or uploaded to a FTP server, which could be quite useful in case of computer theft.

This provides accountability of what happens to your computer when you're away and could help in case of theft.
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Solution #1: add option to take webcam snapshots to GDM / KDM
Written by axx the 29 Sep 09 at 07:00.
After a successful login, the system should warn the user if there were any unsuccessful login attempts on their account, via a notification for instance.

If the system detects a working webcam, it should be quite simple to have GDM/KDM use the webcam to take a snapshot.

This should be added as an option to the login manager.

Given a working internet connection, the picture should be send to an e-mail address or FTP server. Motion is capable of similar things, maybe it could be used to do so.
This also would be an option in the login manager's preferences.

The only caveat is that the system needs a working internet connection to send the data, and wifi connections are usually up and running *after* login. Ethernet connections shouldn't be a problem.
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Solution #2: Cheese can do this
Written by ActionParsnip the 13 Oct 09 at 11:47.
Could be triggered to take a snapshot and mail it.

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