Authorize a non-admin developer in Xcode Mac OS

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I use a standard user account for my daily tasks on Mac OS  Since upgrading to Snow Leopard I am asked to do the following when a program is run from within Xcode    Type the name and password of a user in the  Developer Tools  group to allow Developer Tools Access to make changes   While I know the admin username password  this is annoying  though only required once per login    The developer tools access is asking for rights to  system privilege taskport debug  from application gdb-i386-apple-darwin   What is the best way around this

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I am on Snow Leopard and this one didn t quite work for me  But the following procedure worked    First added another account with admin privileges by ticking  Allow user to administer this computer  under Accounts  for example an account with username test Logged into the test account Launched Xcode  compiled and ran my iPhone project  All ok  no errors were thrown related to permissions Logged out of the test account Logged in with the another account having admin privileges Took away the admin priviliges from the test account by removing the tick from  Allow user to administer this computer  under Accounts Logged back into the test account Deleted the iPhone project directory and again checked out from the repository  in my case svn  Launched Xcode  compiled and ran the project  I didn t get any errors and the App ran well in the iPhone Simulator

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dseditgroup -o edit -u  lt adminusername gt  -t user -a  lt developerusername gt   developer

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Here is a better solution from Mac OS X wants to use system keychain when compiling the project        Open Keychain Access    In the top-left corner  unlock the keychain  if it is locked     Choose the System keychain from the top-left corner    Find your distribution certificate and click the disclosure triangle    Double-click    Private key    under your distribution certificate    In the popup  go to the Access Control tab    Select    Allow all applications to access this item       Save the changes    Close all windows    Run the application

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For me  I found the suggestion in the following thread helped   Stop  quot developer tools access needs to take control of another process for debugging to continue quot  alert  It suggested running the following command in the Terminal application   sudo  usr sbin DevToolsSecurity --enable

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Finally  I was able to get rid of it using DevToolsSecurity -enable on Terminal  Thanks to  joar at work   FYI  I m on Xcode 4 3  and pressed the disable button when it launched for the first time  don t ask why  just assume my dog made me do it

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Ned Deily s solution works perfectly fine  provided your user is allowed to sudo   If he s not  you can su to an admin account  then use his dscl   append  Groups  developer GroupMembership  user  where  user is the username   However  I mistakenly thought it did not because I wrongly typed in the user s name in the command and it silently fails   Therefore  after entering this command  you should proof-check it  This will check if  user is in  group  where the variables represent respectively the user name and the group name   dsmemberutil checkmembership -U  user -G  group   This command will either print the message user is not a member of the group or user is a member of the group

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You need to add your macOS user name to the  developer group   See the posts in this thread for more information   The following command should do the trick  sudo dscl   append  Groups  developer GroupMembership  lt username gt

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After you run   sudo dscl   append  Groups  developer GroupMembership  lt username gt    per the answer above  you may still get prompted to enter in your own password    We need authorization from an admin user to run the debugger  This will only happen once per login session    What it really means is any  developer groupmember user so just your non-admin user password will work here but to get rid of it completely  no prompts after a reboot  you ll also need to run   sudo DevToolsSecurity -enable    running it with sudo as an admin user as root will make it so you can do it remotely without a gui password prompt

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Answer suggested by  Stacy Simpson   We are struggling with the issue described in these threads and none of the resolutions seem to work    Stop  quot developer tools access needs to take control of another process for debugging to continue quot  alert Authorize a non-admin developer in Xcode   Mac OS   As I m new to SO  I cannot post in either thread   The first one is actually closed and I disagree with the localization reasoning      Anyway  we created a work-around using AppleScript that folks may be interested in  The script below should be executed asynchronously prior to launching your automated test   osascript  lt script name gt   lt password gt   amp    Here is the script   on run argv       Delay for 10 seconds as this script runs asynchronously to the automation process and is kicked off first      delay 10        Inspect all running processes     tell application  System Events          set ProcessList to name of every process           Determine if authentication is being requested         if  SecurityAgent  is in ProcessList then               Bring this dialogue to the front             tell application  SecurityAgent  to activate               Enter provided password             keystroke item 1 of argv             keystroke return         end if     end tell end run   Probably not very secure  but it s the best work-around we ve come up with to allow tests to run without requiring user intervention   Hopefully  I can get enough points to post the answer  or  someone can unprotect this question  Regards

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You should add yourself to the Developer Tools group   The general syntax for adding a user to a group in OS X is as follows   sudo dscl   append  Groups  lt group gt  GroupMembership  lt username gt    I believe the name for the DevTools group is  developer

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