Stop “developer tools access needs to take control of another process for debugging to continue” alert

Question

I recently upgraded to 10.7.3, and when I try to debug my iOS project in the simulator for the first time after logging in, I'm prompted with the following two alerts:

My user is an admin user. I never saw these alerts before. How do I get them to stop?

EDIT

I've verified that I'm a member of the _developer group using id -a.

Answer 1

There's a much simpler solution for this. Try running the following command:

sudo /usr/sbin/DevToolsSecurity --enable

Answer 2

enable develoer mode: In Terminal run this: DevToolsSecurity -enable

Answer 3

Per Zev Eisenberg's answer, reinstalling Xcode 4.2.1 worked. However, it might be easier to just patch the /etc/authorization file with the following diff.

        <key>system.privilege.taskport.debug</key> 
        <dict>
            <key>allow-root</key>
            <false/>
            <key>class</key>
-           <string>user</string>
+           <string>rule</string>
            <key>comment</key>
            <string>For use by Apple.  WARNING: administrators are advised
             not to modify this right.</string>
            <key>default-button</key>
            <dict>
            ...
            </dict>
            <key>default-prompt</key>
            <dict>
            ...
            </dict>
-           <key>group</key>
-           <string>_developer</string>
            <key>shared</key>
            <true/>
-           <key>timeout</key>
-           <integer>36000</integer>
+           <key>k-of-n</key>
+           <integer>1</integer>
+           <key>rule</key>
+           <array>
+               <string>is-admin</string>
+               <string>is-developer</string>
+               <string>authenticate-developer</string>
+           </array>
        </dict>

Answer 4

Reinstalling Xcode 4.2.1 after upgrading to 10.7.3 seems to have fixed it for me.

Answer 5

I modified the rule for system.privilege.taskport and the alert doesn't show up anymore.

1. Open the file /etc/authorization.
2. Find the rule system.privilege.taskport. Under the line <key>class</key>, change <string>rule</string> to <string>allow</string>

Answer 6

I had same issue with my mac 10.12.5 & Xcode9 Run this command :

sudo security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport allow 

Then enter your password.. Check if it still prompt you. Good luck..

Answer 7

Something has been modified on file /etc/authorization, I've a Lion without v10.7.3 and it has the following code

Lines 5807-5814

    <key>k-of-n</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
    <key>rule</key>
    <array>
        <string>is-admin</string>
        <string>is-developer</string>
        <string>authenticate-developer</string>
    </array>

After the update the file contains many modification due to new language supported but the lines corresponding to debugging authorization differ from the lines shown above in

Lines 7675-7676

    <key>group</key>
    <string>_developer</string>

I can't apply these differences to my 10.7.3 Lion installation because it's a production machine and I can't risk to corrupt it

I've all necessasy permission as shown from command id -a

uid=501(dave) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),
401(com.apple.access_screensharing),
402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),
12(everyone),
33(_appstore),
61(localaccounts),
79(_appserverusr),
80(admin),
81(_appserveradm),
98(_lpadmin),
100(_lpoperator),
204(_developer)

Answer 8

I just turned debugging off in (edit scheme) -> uncheck debug executable. But I also do all of my debugging on another console, so if you are developing and need the debugger then it wont help. I only have this issue with an old version of Xcode 8.2.1 since I am running the code on an old Mac using El Capitan.

Newer mac and Xcode version 10 doesn't seem to have this issue.

Answer 9

no need code. no need reinstall xcode. Do these steps:

1.close xcode.

2.open Keychain access.

3.double click your Keychain(the key icon which create from keychain.p12)

4.go to access control panel(name maybe not right)

5.enable all app access this.

6.save.

7.run your xcode project.

8.it works well.