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		nicwolff on June 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020) I did this and set perms on /etc/sudoers.d/customtouchid to 0444, now `sudo` opens the dialog, but touching the Touch ID gets `sudo: account validation failure, is your account locked? sudo: a password is required`

nicwolff on June 15, 2022 [–]

Adding it to /etc/pam.d/sudo does work.

pxeger1 on June 15, 2022 | [–]

What is the content of /etc/sudoers? My guess is that macOS doesn't read /etc/sudoers.d

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