Accidental Tech Podcast19h ago

696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
https://atp.fm/696

Lots of details from macOS Golden Gate, Apple's AI Tech Talk, road trips, and failed Bobs.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Show threadHarish Narayanan

@atpfm It has always been possible to authenticate sudo with Touch ID. It needed some finagling in the form of adding "auth sufficient pam_tid.so" to /etc/pam.d/sudo. This has been very convenient.

(This would work until every point release of macOS, and then need to be re-added after an upgrade reset the file.)

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Show threadJohn Siracusa4h ago
@harish I have done that in the past, but what we were talking about is when the macOS GUI wants admin access. The PAM changes never affected that, I believe.
Show threadHarish Narayanan3h ago
@siracusa Sorry, I misunderstood. I didn’t realise you were talking about the GUI.