In macOS Sonoma, Touch ID for sudo can survive updates

3 years ago by octalfudge to c/apple_enthusiast

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…

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cpressland 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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mingistech 5 points 3 years ago

As a SysAdmin sudo is part of daily life.

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cpressland 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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