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Comment by msephton

1 month ago

On macOS you can store secrets in Keychain and then retrieve them with a command (using biometrics by default, or without biometrics if you so wish). The most obvious example is to hook `sudo` up to biometrics using `sudo -A` and askpass to tetris the secret (password).

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