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Re:Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with... by kube-system on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:07PM (#27987264)
I don't use Windows Hello -- is there a setting that requires entry of a password instead of biometrics after a period of time or after a restart?
Re:Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with... by princesse on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:11PM (#27987353)
My MBP requires the password to unlock touchID after a while, fwiw
Re:Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with... by filoleg on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:11PM (#27987349)
Yes, you simply turn off windows hello or any other biometrics in settings, and the other alternatives suggested to you will be a password and a few others.
Re:Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with... by kube-system on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:14PM (#27987404)
I don't mean entirely -- I mean conditionally. Like iOS and MacOS does. If you don't unlock them for a period or time, or after a restart (and a couple of other conditions), they will ask for a password even when you have biometric login enabled.
Re:Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with... by filoleg on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:22PM (#27987508)
Oh, my bad, I completely misunderstood the original question. The macOS comparison makes perfect sense.

As far as I am aware, there is no easy way to make it happen. Maybe my googling skills are poor, but I wasn't able to find anything relevant to this, no matter what kind of queries I was trying. All I've found was just a bunch of complaints about Windows Hello either not working at all or something related.

Re:Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with... by banana_giraffe on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:12PM (#27987357)
I think there's an AD policy that can do this, but there isn't a user-visible option to do it, in the settings "Windows Hello Face" is either on or off.