This post is just a quickie for those of you using a Mac with Touch ID. My latest MacBook Pro has Touch ID and I was surprised at how much I like and use it. It’s especially handy for 1Passowrd where I have a long and hard to type password. One place it doesn’t work is when I invoke sudo. Of course, I’ve never been able to invoke sudo with Touch ID so it’s not like anything has been taken away from me but I still irrationally feel like it’s a deprivation. I know, I know. A first-world problem if ever there was one.
Dan Moren to the rescue. Over at Six Colors, Moren has an article that explains how to enable Touch ID for sudo. It turns out that all you have to do is add a line to the sudo file so it’s easy to do. If you’re a spoiled, first-world, Mac user like me, you should take a look at Moren’s article.