• TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I sometimes believe that this kind of sudo touch approval is a scam. Quite often when I update some app that comes with an installer (like nextcloud or Edge browser), I am offered to approve the installation / update via touch ID, but it almost never works, but instead I have to type in the admin account and password. So I wonder why they even offer this option, when it has no effect?!

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      1 year ago

      Did you focus the popup containing the Touch ID symbol? Often times it opens defocused and you have to click it to actually use Touch ID.

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      1 year ago

      The code is such a tangled mess that trying to update one place has no effect on others, or straight up fails because it was expecting a different response

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    1 year ago

    This is great, but I’ve not run sudo on a Mac for daily DevOps duties for at least five years now. If sudo is part of your workflow, question your workflow.