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Created September 8, 2020 17:49
Enabling Yubikey for sudo on OSX

Intro

Primarily, I use TouchID for sudo authentication on OSX, but I also tend to be connected to a CalDigit TS3 Plus dock and external monitors with my laptop lid closed. TouchID does not work in that situation.

In my quest to have another solution I found the instructions from Yubikey[1][2]. Unfortunately, the instructions are not well laid out, with formatting issues and some necessary information just missing. I hope to rectify that with this document.

Prerequisites

This has been tested on MacOS 10.14.6 and should work on MacOS 10.15. This README assumes you are using Homebrew; it should be possible to configure everything w