How to disable Instrumentation Prompt ( Developer Tool Access is trying to ... )

[Ben Li]

Hi,

I have setup iOS auto smoke using Calabash from Jenkins. 

Everything works nicely, except one thing which is annoying -  the Prompt for password with message " Developer Tool Access in trying to take control of another process. Type your password to allow this."

I am using ios simulator, and have tried the following and have no luck:

• Enable developer mode by: sudo /usr/sbin/DevToolsSecurity --enable
• Unlock Keychain:          security unlock-keychain -p [password] "${HOME}/Library/Keychains/login.keychain"

So far I have to enter the password manually, and it will be good for around 24 hours. This is annoying because I have to enter the password from time to time, and it also means the autosmoke is not reliable as it can fail due to the prompt. 

Does anyone has a solution for this?

Thanks,

Ben

[Krukow]

Does this link help?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1837889/authorize-a-non-admin-developer-in-xcode-mac-os

[Ben Li]

Thanks Krukow for replying.

Not sure if that works, but I found a solution my self earlier for OSX Mavericks:

• runs this command to check the system privilege settings:
• security authorizationdb read system.privilege.taskport
• by default it is set to allow-root for my MAC
• over write the setting to “allow”:
• security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport allow

This disables the annoying prompt for me!

Cheers,
Ben