Hacker News Reader

Comment by latchkey | Hacker News Reader

> The setting will still occasionally reset after installing some system updates because it's 2023 and computers these days are extremely unreliable when it comes to remembering user preferences.

The sudo touchid mod gets reset so often now that I've stopped bothering with it. Ok, you win apple!

View on HN

I was just thinking that I should make a shell script with these commands and the touch ID one and add it as a login item. Sudo shouldn't be a big deal, just set the owner to root and set the SUID bit.

Sadly, DisplayLink breaks that functionality (???). I've been unable to work around that breakage on my work Mac. :(

This should help:

  defaults write com.apple.security.authorization ignoreArd -bool true

I did find that online, but unfortunately it did not help. :(

I'm not sure if this is because that info is out of date, or due to some other issue specific to my work machine and what the org has installed/configured on it.

It may be official now! I just saw today that Sonoma contains an example pam config file with that line commented out.

Uncomment, copy it over the default file, win.

Far less hidden.

https://mastodon.social/@StrangeNoises/110910261899874868

YES! Confirmed! Thank you!

Oh you posted that as a story. Heh. That’s a great idea. Why don’t I ever think of that?

Glad I could help. It ran through my feed today by chance.

My comments aren't entertaining enough to get enough upvotes for karma farming, so I post cool links that I find.

Trust me, I get it. The cool links are what drew me to HN, however they’re found.

We appreciate your service :)

Thanks!

I try this occasionally and always disable it again. For some reason I find the fingerprint sensor is far less reliable for this particular use case. When I try to authenticate, I have to try repeatedly to get it to recognise my fingerprint. I know it’s the same hardware and software doing the matching, so it doesn’t really make any sense to me.

I don’t use it either. I don’t need sudo enough so I just don’t find the need. My password is strong but it’s not like it’s 58 characters.

I love Touch ID in general on this Mac. This just didn’t do anything special for me, so I never really adopted it.

I don't use sudo that much either, but it was always one of those things that was fun to adopt because it was theoretically a one time change. Set and forget. Once Apple started to update the OS more frequently, I stopped bothering trying to keep up with the resets. Thankfully this annoyance is fixed!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com