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mattrajca / sudo-touchid

A fork of `sudo` with Touch ID support.
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Why fork instead of PAM module? #2

Closed lm2s closed 7 years ago

lm2s commented 8 years ago

macOS, as many other *nix systems, has PAM. Is there a specific reason to not create a PAM module that would interface with sudo instead of the fork?

EDIT: PAM was first introduced in Linux not Unix, changed the wording.

rejsmont commented 8 years ago

+1

WANG-lp commented 7 years ago

+1

mattrajca commented 7 years ago

Someone else has already implemented Touch ID support as a PAM module: https://github.com/hamzasood/pam_touchid

I'll still keep sudo-touchid around.