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by dreamling 2443 days ago
Have you found the solution to keep things from asking for permission on things? I haven't upgraded yet, but experience this for a good 20+ items on reboot, and I haven't been able to find a solution to stop it. (including going into my keychain and trying to allow more permission to some items)

Sometimes this mean 5-10min of allowing things access and typing my password over and over for each prompt. Things usually work after that, but I don't even have a clue, often times different apps seem to be asking if they can access system programs.
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saagarjha 2443 days ago
> including going into my keychain and trying to allow more permission to some items

This almost certainly is not going to help, because it’s granting access to other things.

> Sometimes this mean 5-10min of allowing things access and typing my password over and over for each prompt. Things usually work after that, but I don't even have a clue, often times different apps seem to be asking if they can access system programs.

It’s interesting to see how we’ve already degrade to the Windows Vista-esque experience when you just approve everything. None of the security benefits, all of the usability downsides…

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dreamling 2443 days ago
I mean, I've taken the time to try to search for each of those subsystem things are asking for, but the information out there about doesn't really add much more info to 'if you don't say yes this will not work' or, 'this will ask you again for permission in 10 min'

Some of the more curious ones I've checked via the logs in the ActivityMonitor to try to figure out what is really being asked.

But none of this yields an answer. ie, things need to use launchd, assistantd, and accountsd ect. I never personally revoked those permissions.

Historical web answers point users to use Keychain First Aid, which hasn't been around for years now, but obviously this has been a long ongoing issue which seems to possibly be exacerbated by other OS upgrade issues.

A fix would absolutely quell the rage this gives me when I have to deal with it early in the morning before a deployment.

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dreamling 2443 days ago
curiously, on my Windows system, I clicked 'no' to a permission prompt on something one time and now I can't seem to actually give the thing blanket permission after determining I would want it to have it.

So that just asks pretty much every 5 min or so, again it's more a subsystem than an entire program, so bla)

so. yea. yay for technology. ;) I think I'll just go read a book now. on paper. in the other room. ;)

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