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Former Member
4 years ago

Sudo support

Is there a way (maybe alias it?) to use the new CLI features to let you use biometrics to unlock sudo password prompts? 1Password Version: Not Provided Extension Version: Not Provided OS V...
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Former Member's avatar
Former Member
4 years ago

@"Horia.Culea_1P" Yes, that scenario is the basis of my ask - I'm ssh'ed into another machine, get a sudo prompt and would love to somehow use my local biometric auth method to answer it. But even simpler is the local device. I open a command prompt, sudo and have a prompt. XIII above gave a pointer to one way (although I so far didn't get it to work), but it seems like it might be possible to use the 1password cli stuff to have it work.

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puck
New Contributor
7 months ago

Anonymous, I recently developed a solution for exactly your use case.

`sudo` has `--askpass` option that calls an external program to get the password. It’s used primarily to launch some GUI tool, but it can also be utilized when SSH-ing into a remote host.

My full instructions here: https://lebkowski.name/sudo/