Error while running the script

[hyukchan]

Hi,

I'm having high ping issues on my Mac, and I found your application from the net.

But while running the awdlkiller app, i'm having this error :

awdlkiller: Error initial disable interface: Operation not permitted

even tho I'm running it in sudo.

Do you have any idea why ?

Thanks for your help

[jamestut]

Hi there, can you paste here the full command and the output that you get?

[hyukchan]

Hi ! So when i run with launchctl, i get this:

➜ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/jamestut.awdlkiller.plist

Password: Load failed: 5: Input/output error Try running launchctl bootstrap as root for richer errors.

Then i tried to run the script directly:

➜ /usr/local/bin/awdlkiller awdlkiller: Error escalating permission to root. Either run this app as root or set setuid bit with root permission.

and with "sudo":

➜ sudo /usr/local/bin/awdlkiller awdlkiller: Error initial disable interface: Operation not permitted

Thanks for your help

[fatdoyy]

I'm having the same error. Did you solved the issue already? @hyukchan

[jamestut]

Hi @hyukchan and @fatdoyy, I just had a brand new macOS installation (fresh install and nothing else installed, SIP on) from 2 different M1 MacBooks and I didn't run into this issue. I couldn't manage to reproduce the issue that you described here.

Wondering what will happen if you do sudo ifconfig awdl0 down manually? And then use that same terminal to sudo ./awdlkiller?

[fatdoyy]

Hi @jamestut, running sudo ifconfig awdl0 down is fine but running sudo ./awdlkiller gave the same error as above: awdlkiller: Error initial disable interface: Operation not permitted.

I'm thinking maybe there's some installation error on my side. May I ask where exactly should I put the manager.py file?

[jamestut]

Hi @fatdoyy, the manager.py itself is not a requirement to run the awdlkiller. You can simply put the awdlkiller anywhere and it should work straight away without that permission error.

Once you've done installing the jamestut.awdlkiller.plist file to /Library/LaunchDaemon, you can put the manager.py in /usr/local/bin and rename it to any file that you want, for example awdl for easy management of the awdlkiller.

Also, if I got the time, I'll make an install script around 2 weeks from now or so.

[dholt]

make sure you do sudo chmod u+s awdlkiller

[jamestut]

I've tested this on a freshly installed macOS on Apple Silicon with SIP and without anything installed and not iCloud logged-in, and running sudo ./awdlkiller works straight away. Additionally, now I've provided a rudimentary installer in this repo (and that installer also works on the aforementioned clean installation of macOS, but with CLDT installed).

Closing this issue as it is highly likely some 3rd party security software might interfere with the operation of this program.