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		impoppy on Aug 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS Fun fact: if your laptop has an IR camera, you can also use face recognition for that purpose.

vonseel on Aug 26, 2022 [–]

More details? Is that an included auth mechanism with MacBooks or something you can install from GitHub?

impoppy on Aug 27, 2022 | [–]

https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy

Never heard of similar stuff for Macs, this is Linux software. Worked fine on my ThinkPad laptop running Fedora.

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