toucli vs pam-watchid

toucli

Use TouchID and the Secure Enclave to encrypt data from the commandline. (by pathtofile)

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

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toucli		pam-watchid
	Project
2	Mentions	3
13	Stars	72
-	Growth	-
4.7	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 4 years ago
Swift	Language
MIT License	License	The Unlicense

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toucli

Posts with mentions or reviews of toucli. 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

In the same vein, I recently made a tool to use TouchID and the Secure Enclave to protect arbitrary data and env variables from the commandline: https://github.com/pathtofile/toucli
Show HN: Commandline tool for protecting data using TouchID+Secure Enclave
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2022

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

What are some alternatives?

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

openssh-sk-winhello - A helper for OpenSSH to interact with FIDO2 and U2F security keys through native Windows Hello API

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

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

pamgpgr

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

dotfiles.nix - My dotfiles in NIX

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

secretive - Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

WinCryptSSHAgent - Using a Yubikey for SSH Authentication on Windows Seamlessly