Power Management

Change Power Management Settings of the system

Authenticate with Touch ID

Changing power management settings requires administrator privileges. By default this is done via username & password. If you would rather use your fingerprint to authenticate you must modify your sudo configuration (note: this change will apply to sudo globally, not just within Raycast).

macOS Sonoma (14) and Later

1. Copy /etc/pam.d/sudo_local.template to sudo_local:

   sudo cp /etc/pam.d/sudo_local.template /etc/pam.d/sudo_local
   

2. Remove the comment character (#) from the auth line in sudo_local:

   # sudo_local: local config file which survives system update and is included for sudo
   # uncomment following line to enable Touch ID for sudo
   auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so
   

macOS Ventura (13) and Earlier

1. Open /etc/pam.d/sudo in your preferred text editor
2. Add auth sufficient pam_tid.so to the list of auth entries:

   # sudo: auth account password session
   auth       sufficient     pam_tid.so
   auth       sufficient     pam_smartcard.so
   auth       required       pam_opendirectory.so
   account    required       pam_permit.so
   password   required       pam_deny.so
   session    required       pam_permit.so
   

3. Save and close the file

Note: /etc/pam.d/sudo is a default macOS file so it will be overwritten by system updates. You will have to reapply this change after each time you update macOS.