pam-watchid vs pam_reattach

pam-watchid

PAM plugin module that allows the Apple Watch to be used for authentication (by insidegui)

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pam_reattach

Reattach to the user's GUI session on macOS during authentication (for Touch ID support in tmux) (by fabianishere)

Pam Sudo Authentication MacOS touch-id Tmux

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pam-watchid		pam_reattach
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3	Mentions	1
72	Stars	568
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 4 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
	Language	C
The Unlicense	License	MIT License

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pam-watchid

Posts with mentions or reviews of pam-watchid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.

Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
I'm using this to authorize sudo (and other things) with Apple Watch:
https://github.com/insidegui/pam-watchid
... and my /etc/pam.d/sudo needs to be changed like this:
```
    # sudo: auth account password session
```
Is there an app that can take a photo when there is an invalid login attempt?
2 projects | /r/macapps | 2 Jul 2021

Here's a swift PAM module for watch auth, for example https://github.com/insidegui/pam-watchid
Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2021

Very handy. But you can use your Apple Watch for sudo which is even better: [0]
[0] https://github.com/insidegui/pam-watchid

pam_reattach

Posts with mentions or reviews of pam_reattach. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-01.

Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2021

If you run things under tmux, you'll also need this: https://github.com/fabianishere/pam_reattach

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pam-watchid and pam_reattach you can also consider the following projects:

WSL-Hello-sudo - Let's sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL.

Fedora-KDE-Yubikey-U2F-2FA-Logins-Guide - Guide to setup a Yubikey for Fedora KDE as 2FA using U2F for the SDDM login screen, lock screen, sudo and su.

sekey - Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!

sudo-touchid - A fork of `sudo` with Touch ID support.

pam_wtid - Patch for Apple's pam_tid PAM Touch ID module to add sudo watch authentication

please - Really tiny sudo replacement

dotfiles.nix - My dotfiles in NIX

pam-onelogin - pam-onelogin is a pretty complete pam/nss stack for using OneLogin as authentication source (with MFA) and user/group lookups. Primarily used for SSH.

howdy - 🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux