How to use sudo with Touch ID on your MacUse Terminal often? This tip from Cabel Sasser could help speed up your workflow.
Here's a tip from Cabel Sasser of Panic for those of you out there with Touch Bar MacBook Pros who use Terminal and the "sudo" command frequently.
Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID? If you edit /etc/pam.d/sudo and add the following line to the top…auth sufficient pam_tid.so…you can now use your fingerprint to sudo!— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) November 16, 2017
Here's the full step-by-step, for those who want to experiment. That said: sudo is an incredibly powerful command in the Terminal; we don't recommend messing around with this trick if you don't feel comfortable working in the Terminal app and changing system preference files.
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Also worth noting, via Sasser:
(Important caveat/warning: if you SSH into that machine, you will NOT be able to sudo, as your fingerprint cannot travel through...
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How to use sudo with Touch ID on your Mac
