Enabling TouchID for sudo commands

Got a Macbook or desktop Apple computer equipped with the TouchID sensor and wondering how you could stop having to input your admin password for every sudo prompt ? look no further! The pam_tid plugin Shipped with MacOS is the pam_tid.so PAM plugin allowing you to invoke the TouchID authentication method in any PAM flow. Since authenticating the access to the sudo executable depends on PAM we simply need to add pam_tid....

August 27, 2022 ยท 2 min