macOS Help - Password required to debug in XCode

[sanPietro98]

I just got my new Mac and I used Migration Assistant to transfer all my stuff over. I now get the (attached) dialog asking for my password when I try to "Build & Run" in XCode. Any ideas on how to make it stop asking? I never had this problem on the older Mac.

I'm running OSX 10.6, with XCode 3.2.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[kainjow]

You could try running a Repair Disk Permissions in Disk Utility.

 

[sanPietro98]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried that -- no change.

 

[kainjow]

I'm guessing a reinstall of Xcode would fix it.

 

[sanPietro98]

I'm guessing a reinstall of Xcode would fix it.

That's a good idea. I'll give that a try.

 

[electroshock]

Fire up Terminal.app. Then run this command:

id | grep -c _developer

Does it say 0 or does it say 1?

If it says 0, that may be your problem. Fix should be a matter of:

sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership <your username>

It's sounding like Migration Assistant didn't merge your username into groups you were a member of on the old setup. Reinstallation of Xcode would also add you to the _developer group, fixing the issue -- but that's kinda like killing an ant with a megaton nuclear bomb.

 

[Analog Kid]

I just stumbled onto the same problem. Are you running as an administrator, or a standard user? I'm running as a standard user, which I'm guessing is causing the problem.

I've only seen that message once though, so maybe it's not so bad...

 

[vishvesh]

try doing chmod on the project folder
chmod -R 0777 $Folder_Path.

 

[sanPietro98]

I just stumbled onto the same problem. Are you running as an administrator, or a standard user? I'm running as a standard user, which I'm guessing is causing the problem.

I've only seen that message once though, so maybe it's not so bad...

I was running as a user with Admin privileges. I got the message the first time I tried to debug code after a boot-up. There is a "debug process" that gets started. Once that process started, it stayed up for the rest of the login session and didn't require the password anymore.