Non-Admin Developer on Snow Leopard

Question

I use a standard user account for my daily tasks on Mac OS. Since upgrading to Snow Leopard I am asked to do the following when a program is run from within Xcode:

"Type the name and password of a user in the 'Developer Tools' group to allow Developer Tools Access to make changes"

While I know the admin username/password, this is annoying (though only required once per login).

The developer tools access is asking for rights to "system.privilege.taskport.debug" from application gdb-i386-apple-darwin.

What is the best way around this?

Answer 1

You need to add your OS X user name to the _developer group. See the posts in this thread for more information. The following command should do the trick:

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

Answer 2

$ dseditgroup -o edit -u <adminusername> -t user -a <developerusername> _developer

Answer 3

You should add yourself to the Developer Tools group. The general syntax for adding a user to a group in OS X is as follows:

sudo dscl . append /Groups/<group> GroupMembership <username>

I believe the name for the DevTools group is _developer.

Answer 4

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Answer 5

I am on Snow Leopard and this one didn't quite work for me. But the following procedure worked:

1. First added another account with admin privileges by ticking "Allow user to administer this computer" under Accounts, for example an account with username test
2. Logged into the test account
3. Launched Xcode, compiled and ran my iPhone project. All ok, no errors were thrown related to permissions
4. Logged out of the test account
5. Logged in with the another account having admin privileges
6. Took away the admin priviliges from the test account by removing the tick from "Allow user to administer this computer" under Accounts
7. Logged back into the test account
8. Deleted the iPhone project directory and again checked out from the repository (in my case svn)
9. Launched Xcode, compiled and ran the project. I didn't get any errors and the App ran well in the iPhone Simulator.

Hope this helps someone. Took me a long time to discover this.

nkansara