Use case

The local_auth package is useful when handling sensitive data in Flutter applications. In my case, I am processing encrypted, sensitive messages which I would obviously like to protect. Especially on Desktop systems in the professional environment, lots of sensitive data is being processed. That is why I would like to propose to support native authentication on desktop systems too.

Proposal

Especially on Linux, the implementation should be done using pam, the native Linux authentication manager, as pam itself supports various authentication types, security levels. Especially, password authentication, facial detection and fingerprint detection can be natively integrated into pam.

About Windows and macOS, I am unfortunately not in knowledge to propose a suiting method.