Hardening your desktops

Human beings aren’t really username and password people. Anyone who claims that email is dead would do well to recall that it’s often the only way to reset passwords for all those web services we only sign into once in a blue moon. Naturally, we should all be using password managers and that situation should never arise, but to err is human and all that. Still, there are alternatives and augmentations to passwords that provide convenience and security. Major desktops on Linux don’t yet provide the face/retina unlock features of Windows 10, but that will change. In the meantime we can use a variety of other means to log into our glorious desktops and online services.