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I was really hoping the article would have explained a bit about PAM. Any high school English teacher can Google instructions for enabling sudo with Touch ID, b

by KMnO4 4y ago

I was really hoping the article would have explained a bit about PAM. Any high school English teacher can Google instructions for enabling sudo with Touch ID, but I’ve come to expect HN posts to have a higher pedigree.

chatmasta 4y ago
Yes, I thought the same while I was googling to ensure my comment wouldn’t betray the fact that I’ve never actually implemented PAM myself. :D (I’ve certainly benefitted from it though!) When exploring a technology I like to search GitHub for it, since that should surface a healthy sample of code that uses it. For instance the “pam” topic looks like a fun rabbit hole to click into, with a list of repositories demonstrating a wide array of use cases for PAM. [0] [0] https://github.com/topics/pam?o=desc&s=stars https://github.com/topics/pam?o=desc&s=stars