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I am running Yosemite 10.10.5 and I have a shell script which I want to use to toggle whether my wifi connections run through tor or not. This uses the networksetup a couple of times and so asks for my password each time I run or cancel it.
Is there a way to make a shell script run without requiring my password each time?
Thanks!
Make sure you have a corresponding id_rsa.pub or id_dsa.pub in your ~/.ssh directory.
When I had an id_rsa but not a corresponding id_rsa.pub, Mac OS X kept popping up the dialog and remember passowrd in my keychain did nothing.
cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -y -f id_rsa > id_rsa.pub
generated the appropriate public key file for me.
If you already had your public file there (rename it to another name) and generate the public key again using the above command, you'll notice that the generated and the old one are not equal. Somehow the older versions of Mac OS X generated a public key that Lion does not like anymore, generating it again fixes that.
For the curious, the key is exactly the same, the part that changes is that there is no "comments" section after the key on the file any longer.
System Preferences > Security & Privacy
Uncheck the box "Require Password Immediately"
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You can add a rule to the
/etc/sudoersfile to give your user access rights tonetworksetupwithout a password.whoamiin Terminal)VISUAL=nano sudo visudo- opens the sudoers file in a kind of friendly editorAdd
followed by an empty line(!)
You should now be able to run
networksetupas the user from step 1 without a password prompt by simply enteringsudo networksetup.