Mac OSX Sudo With Fingerprint

Apple OSX
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Have a shiny new Macbook Pro with touch bar?
Sick and tired of typing your local password each time you wanrt to sudo anythiong within the terminal?

Well boy do i have an awesome solution for you!

Open up terminal and edit the following file (this will be the last time you need to enter your password for sudo)

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/sudo

Add the following at the top of the file

auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so

Save and close the file and restart the terminal.

Now whenever you SUDO anything you will be prompted to use your fingerprint!