Error -60008 when trying to copy files to /Applications after Apple Watch authentication

[rootie]

Hi,

I've encountered a weird behaviour in Catalina. One of the new features is that you don't anymore have to enter the admin password to authenticate when you have an Apple Watch.

I have setup everything but I can't manage to copy an application to /Applications using the Finder. As soon as I've authenticated with the Apple Watch I get an error message "Error -60008".

When I use the admin password authentication instead, it works.

My user is a standard user (no admin) and I would expect this to work. I also tried a new user and an admin user and nothing worked so far.

Maybe someone tries to copy a file to /Applications with my setup and report whether or not it works.

It seems like this is a bug in Catalina.


Best regards
rootie

 

[rootie]

Even a clean install does not work. Am I interpreting this functionality wrong? I can’t believe that I‘m the only one with this issue.

 

[chrfr]

Hi,

I've encountered a weird behaviour in Catalina. One of the new features is that you don't anymore have to enter the admin password to authenticate when you have an Apple Watch.

I have setup everything but I can't manage to copy an application to /Applications using the Finder. As soon as I've authenticated with the Apple Watch I get an error message "Error -60008".

When I use the admin password authentication instead, it works.

My user is a standard user (no admin) and I would expect this to work. I also tried a new user and an admin user and nothing worked so far.

Maybe someone tries to copy a file to /Applications with my setup and report whether or not it works.

It seems like this is a bug in Catalina.


Best regards
rootie

I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bug. The watch unlock doesn't provide a mechanism to identify the user as an administrator, so if you're a standard user, there's no way for the watch to indicate to the computer who is authenticating.

 

[rootie]

Yes but why does Catalina offer me to authenticate via the Watch if it's not possible anyway? Simply setup the authentication and try to copy a file to /Applications with a standard user. The Watch will trigger and offer you to authenticate which then fails.

I would have expected this working like 'sudo' with the password authentication replaced by the double-click on the Watch button.

The way it is solved right now is just ridiculous - as of now I only can use the Watch to unlock the Mac and to view my passwords in Safari and that's pretty much it.

Thoughts?