Use Fingerprint in MacOS Terminal

MacOS Terminal authentication with fingerprint

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Problem

When you want to use sudo on a command or get admin access on something, terminal always prompts for the password, but it is very annoying to enter the password all the time.

Steps

Open terminal and enter:

$ sudo vim /etc/pam.d/sudo

• Add “auth sufficient pam_tid.so” on the top of the file (screenshot).
• Save the file and exit (:w!).

Now open a new terminal window and try sudo on any command you should see the prompt for finger print and that should authenticate you.

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