Security check – "yubiswitch is trying to install a new helper tool"

pallotron / yubiswitch

OSX status bar application to enable/disable Yubikey Nano

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Security check – "yubiswitch is trying to install a new helper tool" #49

Closed lorensr closed 8 years ago

lorensr commented 8 years ago

What's this for? Came up after restarting today, latest OS X. Thanks!

When I hit cancel, I get:

pallotron commented 8 years ago

It's explained in the README.md in the homepage of the project.........

pallotron commented 8 years ago

Yubiswitch installs an helper daemon with root privileges which contains the logic to grab the USB HID interface, the main application talks to this daemon via XPC calls. When you start Yubiswitch for the first time it will ask for your user's password, this is expected to install the helper before mentioned

lorensr commented 8 years ago

Thanks. Sorry, didn't come up in my google or issue search. Weird that it comes up again months after installation.