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How to use Mac fingerprint auth for sudo password prompt
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| For a consistent fingerprint auth experience on Mac, for both GUI and CLI, I learned that I can add the below and everytime I would have gotten a password prompt, I now instead get a fingerprint popup modal. Saves a ton of time if you have a longer password. | |
| /etc/pam.d/sudo Add this line to the TOP, bottom won't work. | |
| ``` | |
| auth sufficient pam_tid.so | |
| ```` |
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