Use Touch ID for sudo commands

Turns out on MacOS you can use Touch ID to authenticate sudo commands! No clue about the security implications of this though. To enable, add a file at /etc/pam.d/sudo_local with the following content, and then restart your computer.

/etc/pam.d/sudo_local
text
auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so

Warning

In the /etc/pam.d/ directory, there's another file called sudo, but you should not add the lines above to the it. Changes to that file may not survive OS updates.

Created 10/08/24
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