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Also, with sudo, I think a lot of the value is the inconvenience of typing out a password. Having to stop and think and type is a nice guardrail that I think fingerprint-based auth would remove.


The sudoers file on my Mac is configured to always show the disclaimer (and I deleted the Apple written one so it shows the original disclaimer too). It’s definitely made me stop and think once or twice before brew did something I didn’t want it to (or if I forgot which terminal I was in).




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