Especially at work you should lock your screen when you leave your workspace.

To make this easier when you’re a YubiKey user, I’ve created the following script to automatically lock your screen when you unplug your YubiKey.

After that it waits until a YubiKey is inserted again and from then on it will lock the screen again if you remove it.

Even when it would be much nicer to install the script as a launchd daemon I don’t recommend it. (Would be bad if you get totally locked when there is a problem)

I’d recommend to create a Application using Apples Automator which runs the script after waiting 20 seconds (in case you need time to disable it) as a shell script and which will be loaded after login.

Test it before making it permanent

I use it on a macOS High Sierra

drawbacks

• it will only lock if there is no device with the name yubikey plugged in

benefits

• useable without YubiKey (in case you forgot it at home)

usage

by setting the environment variable DEBUG to any value, log output will be printed to stdout. It is really useful for testing this script.

DEBUG=true ./script

the script

#!/bin/bash

function prntdbg {
  if [ ! -z "$DEBUG" ]; then
    echo "$@"
  fi
}

function lock_screen {
  pmset displaysleepnow
}

function wait_for_plugin {
  while true; do
    if system_profiler SPUSBDataType | grep 'Yubikey' 2>/dev/null >/dev/null; then
      prntdbg yubikey plugged in
      break
    else
      prntdbg yubikey removed
    fi
    sleep 2
  done
}

function wait_for_unplug {
  while true; do
    if system_profiler SPUSBDataType | grep 'Yubikey' 2>/dev/null >/dev/null; then
      prntdbg yubikey plugged in
    else
      prntdbg yubikey removed
      lock_screen
      break
    fi
    sleep 2
  done
}

while true; do
  wait_for_plugin
  wait_for_unplug
done

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