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)

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  • Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022
    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

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YuriyGuts/persistent-touch-id-sudo is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of persistent-touch-id-sudo is C.


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