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Thamaraiselvam

Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks

Nov 2, 2019

How to allow Touch ID to authenticate for Sudo commands on Mac

To enable TouchID on your Mac to authenticate you for sudo access instead of a password you need to do the following steps. Open Sudo configuration file with the following command sudo vi /etc/pam.d/sudo Initially file content should look like this...

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#programming #tutorial #macos #terminal #authentication

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John James Jacoby

WordPress Things.

Nov 25, 2019

Thanks for linking the source and for calling out the iTerm2 comment specifically. Saved me a bit of time!

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Nov 3, 2019

Brilliant. Thanks!

Would it at all be possible to do on a Linux server when on ssh onto a server?

Thamaraiselvam

Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks

Nov 3, 2019

Thanks for the comment, if you SSH into your machine it will fall back to just use your password since you can't send your TouchID fingerprints over SSH

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Nov 3, 2019

Thamaraiselvam Yes I thought so and I realised you already wrote that in the article, but I missed it. Doh! I wish in the future that it will be possible to forward a text string from the touch ID based on which server you are connected to. But that's another story.