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TIL: For a consistent fingerprint auth experience on Mac, for both GUI and CLI, I learned that I can add this snippet to the top of /etc/pam.d/sudo:

auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so

and now everytime I get a password prompt, I instead get a fingerprint popup modal. Saves a ton of time if you have a longer password.

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