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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers I misused: "sudo rm -rf /*" Post 303030031 by Neo on Monday 4th of February 2019 09:20:10 PM
Old 02-04-2019
First of all, you can restore MacOS when the entire operating system is corrupted using your Time Machine backup.

Not long ago, I was upgrading one of my Macs and the system froze in the middle of OS installation. The box was dead. It would not boot and would barely flicker when powered on.

I went to the web and Googled "restore MacOS from Time Machine" and followed the instructions to hold down some keys, boot off the Time Machine backup, and soon I had my entire ex-corrupted system up and working again. Yea!

OBTW, I own four (active and fully backed up) Macs. One super high end MacPro (my main development machine with 34" ASUS gaming monitor), one MacMini, which I use as a kind of active network storage device, and two MacBook Airs. Each of these machines has a full and mostly current Time Machine backup (based on the last time I upgraded the OS or how active I use it) and I keep it that way; especially for my development machine where I work daily.

Hence, the moral of my story is that you must have backups. There is no excuse for not having them with cheap external SSD drives on the market. Having backups one of the most fundamental things you can do to secure you computer data. It's your responsibility to do this.

So, when you do something wrong and break your system, or the system breaks due to some disk error or other problem, you can restore from backup. Systems always break. They will break at some point in time for some reason you cannot even imagine. This is just as basic of an understanding as making sure you have a spare tire in the back of you car when drive, or as basic has having an extra shoe for your horse on your farm. Your body stores fat as a backup energy supply for your body. Backups are a part of nature and are core to your security.

There is no excuse for not having a backup. Just do it and do it often.

Cheers.
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bioutil(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						bioutil(1)

NAME
bioutil -- tool for viewing/changing Touch ID configuration and listing/deleting enrolled fingerprints SYNOPSIS
bioutil {-r | -w [-f { 0 | 1 }] [-u { 0 | 1 }] [-a { 0 | 1 }]} | [-c] | [-p] | [-d <uid>] [-s] DESCRIPTION
bioutil provides the possibility of viewing and changing Touch ID configuration, both system-wide and user-specific. It also allows listing and deleting enrolled fingerprints. OPTIONS
-r, --read Read Touch ID configuration. -w, --write Write Touch ID configuration. -s, --system Indicates that system-wide configuration is to be read/written (user-specific configuration is the default) or that a system-wide list/delete operation is to be performed. -f, --function Enables (1) or disables (0) overall Touch ID functionality (system-wide configuration only). -u, --unlock Enables (1) or disables (0) Touch ID for unlock. -a, --applepay Enables (1) or disables (0) Touch ID for ApplePay (user-specific configuration only). -c, --count Provides number of enrolled fingerprints of the current user or of all users (when run with -s as an administrator) -p, --purge Deletes all enrolled fingerprints of the current user or of all users (when run with -s as an administrator) -d, --delete Deletes all enrolled fingerprints of the user with given user ID (must be run as an administrator) EXAMPLES
bioutil -r Reads Touch ID configuration for the current user. bioutil -r -s Reads system-wide Touch ID configuration. bioutil -w -u 1 Enables Touch ID for unlock for the current user. sudo bioutil -w -s -u 0 Disables Touch ID for unlock for the whole system. bioutil -c Prints the number of enrolled fingerprints of the current user. bioutil -p Deletes all enrolled fingerprints of the current user. sudo bioutil -c -s Prints numbers of enrolled fingerprints of all enrolled users. sudo bioutil -p -s Deletes all fingerprints from the system. sudo bioutil -s -d 501 Deletes all fingerprints of user 501. Darwin May 31, 2019 Darwin
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