Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

• pam-watchid

  3 72 0.0

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

Very handy. But you can use your Apple Watch for sudo which is even better: [0]

[0] https://github.com/insidegui/pam-watchid

• pam-touchid

  1 32 0.0 Objective-C

  Pluggable Authentication Module for TouchID enabled MacBooks (by spaghetti-)

Interesting, I hacked a small pam module together 4 years ago for the first generation of touch id enabled macbooks[0] and I wonder if pam_tid.so was always present and I just missed it. D'oh!

[0] https://github.com/spaghetti-/pam-touchid

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• pam_reattach

  1 545 0.0 C

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

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

• sudo-touchid

  1 1,546 0.0 C

  A fork of `sudo` with Touch ID support.

I just have a setuid root sudo binary (compiled from sudo-touchid: https://github.com/mattrajca/sudo-touchid) in my home folder ~/bin. This has worked a treat across OS updates, without hacking PAM stuff. It’s extremely convenient and has probably saved me cumulative hours in typing out my long password :)

• WSL-Hello-sudo

  7 1,155 0.0 Rust

  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.

Similarly for WSL2 using Windows Hello:

https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo

• sekey

  4 2,419 0.0 Rust

  Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!

  

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