Will this work with a third-party fingerprint reader?

mattrajca / sudo-touchid

A fork of `sudo` with Touch ID support.

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Will this work with a third-party fingerprint reader? #4

Closed JunielKatarn closed 7 years ago

JunielKatarn commented 8 years ago

For pre-2016 MacBook Pro models, provided the laptop recognizes the biometric reader, can this sudo variant use such hardware?

mattrajca commented 7 years ago

sudo-touchid currently uses Apple's LocalAuthentication framework which only works with Touch ID. I'm not aware of any other biometric APIs on macOS that would allow us to access third-party hardware.