Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)

Re:Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020) by chriswarbo on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:20AM (#31751409)

No, it only means that the device reported a match; or, that a match signal came in on a certain hardware port (since the scanner may have been replaced, tamperered with, etc.).

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Re:Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020) by mrtksn on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:50AM (#31751619)

Not necessarily, it depends on the implementation. On Apple's case AFAIK the fingerprint mach doesn't simply report a match but also provides the system with the key(which was stored in a separate system) to decrypt the data. You can't simply connect a bogus fingerpront scanner to an Apple device and access the system, in fact that's the reason why unauthorised repairs end up having the touch ID or Face ID broken.

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Re:Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020) by dzikimarian on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:06AM (#31751750)

Same on Android. Fingerprint is used to enable access to cryptographic key.

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