Warning!
This was written over two years ago, so some information might be outdated.
Frameworks and best practices change. The web moves fast! You may need to adjust
a few things if you follow this article word for word.
Now that I've got a mac with TouchID, I rarely use my password. It's incredible how convenient that little button is. One place I found myself still typing my password was running sudo commands in the terminal.
Here's how you can use TouchID with the terminal too!
Enabling TouchID with Sudo
First, open the /etc/pam.d/sudo in an editor with admin permissions. I had to use sudo to do this with the following command:
sudo code /etc/pam.d/sudo
Add auth sufficient pam_tid.so to the file, here's what mine looks like now:
(I only added the line with pam_tid.so on it.)
# sudo: auth account password session
auth sufficient pam_tid.so
auth sufficient pam_smartcard.so
auth required pam_opendirectory.so
account required pam_permit.so
password required pam_deny.so
session required pam_permit.so
iTerm Support
iTerm has an advanced option that you also need to set for this to work properly. Go to
Preferences ⇒ Advanced ⇒ Allow sessions to survive after logging out and back in
Change this setting to No.
Restart iTerm and try it out!
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