KM Would Like to Administer Your Computer

[henryone]

One of my macros will run shell scripts after trigger. I got below pop up before it run scripts. Is there a way to disable this pop up? Thanks.

[MartinPacker]

What happens when you press "OK"? I would expect you not to be asked again.

[henryone]

Press OK the macro runs ok. But it pops up every time this macro triggered. I do have sudo commands in that script. Is there a way to disable this popup?

[tiffle]

googling the problem turned up a solution relating to the Terminal app. Maybe it could work for KM too:

How to turn off "terminal would like to administer your computer" message?

[henryone]

Thanks @tiffle.
I did a few quick searches and tried before I posted this. The link you posted came up first in the result, I tried but pop up still appear. Seems the command is 'reset' permission, not 'disable' the popup.

[tiffle]

OK @henryone, sorry it wasn’t helpful.

[henryone]

Is there anyway for KM to detect this popup window? I tried "the focused window changes" but it didn't trigger, seems this is not a "window".

[ccstone]

@henryone

Is there anyway for KM to detect this popup window?

Hey Henry,

Nyet. It's a system dialog, and Keyboard Maestro cannot see those.

AppleScript can though.

In any case – I think you might be able to get around the problem by adding the relevant commands to your sudoers file. (No bets though.)

Macro to Kill a Specific Process – accountsd

That is a sudoers line. It must be placed in the /etc/sudoers file. Replace “aland” with your username. Edit the file (using sudo in the Terminal and a terminal editor like vim or whatever) and add the line to the end of the file. Use with care, you are opening up security holes and messing with things best left unmessed with unless you know what you are doing (I have a similar line in my sudoers file for killing coreaudiod, although that no longer seems to be necessary). Then you can run …

-Chris

[henryone]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for responding. Could you show me how to do it in AppScript?

I found an alternative solution using KM. Create a new macro that will try to find the image of that popup and click ok once finds it. set the timeout of 5 seconds. Then in my main macro, execute that macro asynchronously with timeout of 5 seconds. So far it works.

[ccstone]

Hey Henry,

Download this little utility:

https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/downloads/?file=Winfo.zip

Run it.

Run your macro to get your problem window.

Place the cursor over that window, and let me now what process owns the window.

It'll look something like this:

-Chris

[henryone]

The owner is UserNotificationCenter

[ccstone]

Hey Henry,

Please post the script that is causing the issue.

-Chris

[henryone]

The script adds a new line to the crontab. There are a few more lines in the script but the line cause the popup is like below:

echo 'xxxxx' | sudo crontab -

.

The user I am running is already in the sudoer list that requires no password to run sudo command.

[ccstone]

@peternlewis – can you comment on this thread?

See Post #1.

-Chris

[peternlewis]

What causes the dialog to appear? It is not a permission I am familiar with.

I couldn't find much online, but one solution suggested was to allow Full Disk Access, which you could grant for Keyboard Maestro.

[ccstone]

@peternlewis

What causes the dialog to appear?

In this case an Execute a Shell Script action.

echo 'xxxxx' | sudo crontab -

It is not a permission I am familiar with.

Me neither.

[henryone]

Thanks @peternlewis!
Added full disk access permission and now seems the popup is gone.