Biometric based techniques have emerged as the most promising option for recognizing individuals in recent years, for authenticating people and granting them access. Face recognition provide a biometric based authentication, authorization, surveillance services. Face recognition has gained increasing interest in the recent decade. Over the years there have been several techniques being developed to achieve high success rate of accuracy in the identification and verification of individuals for authentication in security systems. This paper proposes an adjacency matrix based approach for face recognition. The proposed approach was implemented in C and tested for different inputs.