joelbcastillo/touchid-for-sudo

A script to safely enable using the Macbook's Touch ID for sudo running commands

touchid-for-sudo

A tool to safely enable using the Macbook's Touch ID for sudo running commands.

Usage: To install, simply paste the following into your Terminal of choice. Since this requires editing root files, your password will be required.

git clone https://github.com/jlehrer1/touchid-for-sudo
cd touchid-for-sudo/
chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh
cd ..
rm -rf touchid-for-sudo/

To uninstall, either run

sudo ~/.touch-id-for-sudo/uninstall.sh

Or if you have since deleted the folder, (which will require running as root since the user will not have write permissions to the sudo file backup)

git clone https://github.com/jlehrer1/touchid-for-sudo
cd touchid-for-sudo/
chmod +x uninstall.sh
sudo ./uninstall.sh
cd ..
rm -rf touchid-for-sudo/

However, it is not recommended that you delete ~/.touch-id-for-sudo/ as it contains all the clean backups of the edited root files.

Although this method should be safe theoretically, it's not a bad idea to make a Time Machine backup since changing root files can lead to weird behavior that is very hard to track down.