In macOS Sonoma, Touch ID for sudo can survive updates
In macOS Sonoma, Touch ID for sudo can survive updates
One of the great things about having a Mac with built-in biometric authentication is not having to constantly type in your password. It’s particularly nice for those of us that work in Termin…
I sometimes believe that this kind of sudo touch approval is a scam. Quite often when I update some app that comes with an installer (like nextcloud or Edge browser), I am offered to approve the installation / update via touch ID, but it almost never works, but instead I have to type in the admin account and password. So I wonder why they even offer this option, when it has no effect?!
Did you focus the popup containing the Touch ID symbol? Often times it opens defocused and you have to click it to actually use Touch ID.
The code is such a tangled mess that trying to update one place has no effect on others, or straight up fails because it was expecting a different response
This is great, but I’ve not run sudo on a Mac for daily DevOps duties for at least five years now. If sudo is part of your workflow, question your workflow.
As a SysAdmin sudo is part of daily life.
I'm genuinely curious, what on a Mac do you routinely use root for? We use Jamf for device management, while I appreciate the scripts it runs almost certainly have superpowers, none of our end users do. Homebrew allows for full package management for CLI utilities without admin rights and Installomator handles GUI applications.