"Insomnia wants to access key 'privateKey' in your keychain"

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"Insomnia wants to access key 'privateKey' in your keychain" #3081

Open JonathanAquino opened 3 years ago

JonathanAquino commented 3 years ago

What is your question? I occasionally am prompted to enter my Mac login password for Insomnia with the dialog below. Why does Insomnia need to do this?

What is the context? While I am using Insomnia, I sometimes get prompted as follows:

DMarby commented 3 years ago

Hi @JonathanAquino!

Do you have any plugins enabled under the Application Preferences -> Plugins tab?

JonathanAquino commented 3 years ago

@DMarby looks like no:

DMarby commented 3 years ago

@JonathanAquino This is indeed very strange!

Insomnia itself does not use the keychain for anything, and I don't think we've ever seen this message pop up before unfortunately. It is possible that it is used for something under the hood by Electron or such, but getting an occasional popup definitely seems strange.

Which version of macOS are you on? Do you know if you have any non-standard security configuration or such on your device?

JonathanAquino commented 3 years ago

I'm using OS X 10.15.7 (Catalina). Regarding non-standard security configuration, my organization uses a Zero-Trust product. I didn't think it used the keychain though.

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