One of the great things about having a Mac with built-in biometric authentication is not having to constantly type in your password. It’s particularly nice for those of us that work in Termin…
  • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    I sometimes believe that this kind of sudo touch approval is a scam. Quite often when I update some app that comes with an installer (like nextcloud or Edge browser), I am offered to approve the installation / update via touch ID, but it almost never works, but instead I have to type in the admin account and password. So I wonder why they even offer this option, when it has no effect?!

    • YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      The code is such a tangled mess that trying to update one place has no effect on others, or straight up fails because it was expecting a different response

  • cpressland@celeb.pizzaEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is great, but I’ve not run sudo on a Mac for daily DevOps duties for at least five years now. If sudo is part of your workflow, question your workflow.