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Activate Touchid on OSX to use for sudo in terminal
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set -e | |
if grep -xq "pam_tid.so" /etc/pam.d/sudo; then | |
echo "Option to use touchid for sudo already installed :)" | |
else | |
echo "Configure to use Touchid for sudo ..." | |
sudo chmod 644 /etc/pam.d/sudo # change permission to have write access | |
sudo cp /etc/pam.d/sudo /etc/pam.d/sudo.org # make a copy of original file | |
echo 'auth sufficient pam_tid.so' | cat - /etc/pam.d/sudo > sudo && mv sudo /etc/pam.d/sudo # append file | |
sudo chmod 444 /etc/pam.d/sudo # change permission back | |
echo "Touchid for sudo successfully configured. A copy of the original file you will find here: /etc/pam.d/sudo.org" | |
fi |
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