Is there a way to remove the authorization prompt

Question

I am currently using Instruments via a bash script to initiate the command-line interface to start up runs of the Automation plug-in.

With 4.2, this worked well enough, however with the upgrade to Xcode 4.3, I am now being prompted for an authorized user to 'analyze other processes'. No user is ever actually authenticated, even if the correct credentials are granted. I get the following error:

Failed to authorize rights (0x20) with status: -60007.
2012-02-27 19:30:37.232 instruments[54151:1c03] Failed to connect to local pid watcher     service: (os/kern) failure

Even with the authentication failure, the Automation plug-in executes, however this requires my script to have a physical babysitter enter credentials, which in many ways defeats the purpose of these command-line runs. Is it possible to add the user details as arguments? Or is there some other way to skip over this prompt without requiring a person at the keys?

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This authorization dialog appears when you try to run UIAutomation tests from the GUI for the first time.

Filed a radar rdar://10945962.

-- EDIT --

Once the authorization dialog has been answered in the GUI, the prompts stop appearing on the command-line. This kind of work-around doesn't seem valid as an 'answer' though.

Answer 1

This is the solution worked for me :

<key>system.privilege.taskport</key>
<dict>
<key>allow-root</key>
<false/> 
<key>class</key>
<string>user</string> // change to -> allow
<key>comment</key>
<string>Used by task_for_pid(...).
...
</dict>

Answer 2

In Xcode - if you load up organizer (Xcode->Window->Organizer)

Then select your machine under devices -> 'Enable Developer Mode'

This should remove the need for prompts with instruments.

Answer 3

I tried security unlock-keychain and editing the /etc/authorization file, but neither of those worked.

In the end the only thing that removed that security prompt was what jacekmigacz suggested in a comment, to run "sudo DevToolsSecurity --enable".

Answer 4

The user your script runs as has to be authorized to use the developer tools. You can do this two ways:

• Add the user to the _developer group: sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership scriptusername

• Use the DevToolsSecurity command line tool

Keep in mind that for the UIAutomation instruments to work properly, the user you are invoking Instruments from will also need to be a user that can start a window server (i.e. run the UI) - and will have to be logged in to a window server when UIAutomation runs.

These two things are two of the four or five secrets to using UIAutomation with Jenkins.

Answer 5

Okay I think I got it working.

Here are some more details about how to remove xcode command line authorization prompt

What I did was the following:

• Mark jenkins user as admin (unfortunately it seems that there is no other way atm)
• Go to /etc/authorization
• search for key system.privilige.taskport

• change value of allow-root to true

  <key>system.privilege.taskport</key>
  <dict>
      <key>allow-root</key>
      <false/> // change to -> <true>
      <key>class</key>
      <string>user</string>
      <key>comment</key>
      <string>Used by task_for_pid(...).
      ...
  </dict>
  

Now I am being able to use jenkins to run my UIAutomation-Tests via Command Line Script

Answer 6

I also tried security unlock-keychain and changed the /etc/authorization file, and have DevToolsSecurity enabled, but none of them worked, until I launched the Instruments GUI app and run my script, from which it popped up a dialog and i entered my password, after then when i run the instruments script again it doesn't require password anymore!