persistent-touch-id-sudo
Configures PAM on macOS via a Launch Daemon so that Touch ID for sudo is always available and persists across OS upgrades (by YuriyGuts)
upmerge
maintain local changes to /etc on macOS (and maybe other systems) across upgrades (by rollcat)
| persistent-touch-id-sudo | upmerge | |
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| 2 | 1 | |
| 29 | 2 | |
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| 1.8 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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persistent-touch-id-sudo
Posts with mentions or reviews of persistent-touch-id-sudo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-15.
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Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo
I'm leery of configuring user code to automatically modify system files, especially security related ones. I think your tool should at least have an option to ask user confirmation, perhaps showing the expected file diff, before making its change. https://github.com/YuriyGuts/persistent-touch-id-sudo/issues...
System updates are not frequent. I prefer doing it manually, and just automating a notification that it needs to be redone. I added this to my `.bashrc`:
if ! grep -q "pam_tid.so" /etc/pam.d/sudo ; then
upmerge
Posts with mentions or reviews of upmerge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-15.
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Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo
Would you like to have a look? https://github.com/rollcat/upmerge
What are some alternatives?
When comparing persistent-touch-id-sudo and upmerge you can also consider the following projects:
YubiKey-Guide - Guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH
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.
pam-duress - A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensitive network connections, etc if a user is coerced into giving a threat actor a password.
judo - Simple orchestration & configuration management