Tag: touch id
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Terminal Secure Keyboard Entry and sudo with Touch ID on macOS
At one point or another, you may have discovered that you can enable Touch ID for sudo in the macOS terminal. You used to have to manually edit the /etc/pam.d/sudo file after every macOS update to re-enable it, but now you can keep it enabled permanently. When you have Touch ID enabled for sudo, you…
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Using Touch ID for sudo on macOS… even after installing an OS update
For a while, you were able to use Touch ID for sudo on macOS by editing the /etc/pam.d/sudo file to have a line like auth sufficient pam_tid.so In previous macOS versions, that file would get overwritten when you updated (say, from 13.6 to 13.6.1), but in macOS 14 (Sonoma) and supposedly in future versions, you…