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by tpetry 57 days ago
I would love to have a mode that I must use my long password to unlock my mac for security purposes. But when unlocked, use touchid as an alternative to my password for convenience.

So just the normal TouchID mode but not for unlocking the mac.
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traceroute66 57 days ago
> So just the normal TouchID mode but not for unlocking the mac.

Erm ? Just go to System Preferences and turn off "Use Touch ID to unlock your Mac" ??

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tpetry 57 days ago
When you disable that, its also disabled for sudo operations when unlocked. it basically disables TouchID completely.
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traceroute66 57 days ago
> When you disable that, its also disabled for sudo operations when unlocked.

And in the context of this discussion is that a bad thing ? i.e. do you want to leave open the possibility of being compelled to sudo via your finger ?

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