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With this config enabled, a popup shows up, you have to reach for the mouse, give the window focus, and then do touch id. Typing a password every three days is SO much quicker.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1715854210-Alyosha-Karamazov-The-Brothers-Karamazov-Forrest-Gump-juggles-Pandoras-toy-by-John-Gerrard-0.6-1024x1000.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1715854210-Alyosha-Karamazov-The-Brothers-Karamazov-Forrest-Gump-juggles-Pandoras-toy-by-John-Gerrard-0.6-1024x1000.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1715854210-Alyosha-Karamazov-The-Brothers-Karamazov-Forrest-Gump-juggles-Pandoras-toy-by-John-Gerrard-0.6-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1715854210-Alyosha-Karamazov-The-Brothers-Karamazov-Forrest-Gump-juggles-Pandoras-toy-by-John-Gerrard-0.6-768x750.png 768w, https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1715854210-Alyosha-Karamazov-The-Brothers-Karamazov-Forrest-Gump-juggles-Pandoras-toy-by-John-Gerrard-0.6-1200x1171.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1715854210-Alyosha-Karamazov-The-Brothers-Karamazov-Forrest-Gump-juggles-Pandoras-toy-by-John-Gerrard-0.6.png 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that MacOS 15.0 does not respect altered timestamp_timeout values. Trying to find out why, and how it might be fixable I found nothing. Instead the ability to do sudo via touch ID came to light. Looking for \/etc\/pam.d\/sudo_local.template will get you details. I tried for 5 minutes. And it is nonsense! You work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sudo MacOS 15.0 Sequoia and timestamp_timeout - Andreas Wacker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/27\/sudo-macos-15-0-sequoia-and-timestamp_timeout\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudo MacOS 15.0 Sequoia and timestamp_timeout - Andreas Wacker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It seems that MacOS 15.0 does not respect altered timestamp_timeout values. 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