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Touch Bar, no... but Touch ID?
by cpuguy83 7y ago
Touch Bar, no... but Touch ID?
- cgriswald 7y agoLike I said, I'm not sure. The vast majority of people I know who have an Air or MBP have an older model without Touch ID. They might appreciate it if it is there, but they won't miss it in its absence. The only two people I know who've ever owned one that had it both returned it because they otherwise hated the device. For me personally, Touch ID makes sense on a phone, because I can do it with a single hand. For a laptop, I'm going to have my fingers on the home row anyway, and typing in even a complicated password is fast.
- lukifer 7y agoI'm on a 2018 MacBook Air, the only model has F-keys and Touch ID, and I love it. Once you get used to sudo using your fingerprint, it's hard to go back. :)
- cpuguy83 7y agoI had sudo setup to use fingerprint, but at some point it quit working... config files are still correct. Not sure what happened :(
- saagarjha 7y agoAre you using iTerm2? There's a new feature that interferes with the Touch ID PAM module working for sudo.
- cheeze 7y agoITerm2 support broke, you need to turn off "Allow sessions to survive"... https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/7618 https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/7618
- cpuguy83 7y agoOMG thank you!
- cbuq 7y agoI think Touch ID on a laptop / desktop would make a lot of sense. I don't actually know any of my passwords.
- cgriswald 7y agoI could see that, and I think using it for sudo (as in many sibling comments) makes a lot of sense even if that's not a common use case. Perhaps ironically, I know my laptop/desktop passwords by touch. :)