The invention provides an identity 
authentication method and 
system, an electronic device, a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises the following steps that first identity verificationis conducted according to 
user information input by a user, the 
user information at least comprises a user name and a 
password, whether the input user name is matched with the 
password or not is determined according to the 
user information stored in a 
database, if yes, second identity 
verification is conducted, and if not, 
user verification fails is prompted; And collecting user face feature information to carry out second identity 
verification, determining whether the collected user face feature information is matched with user information input by the user according to the face feature information stored in the 
database, if so, granting a corresponding authority to the user, and if not, prompting that the 
user verification fails. The 
system, the 
electronic equipment and the computer readable storage medium are used for realizing the method. According to the invention, a safe, reliable and flexible integrated face recognition 
authentication service and early warning are provided foran enterprise, and the requirement of enterprise user identity 
information security active defense is better met.