Developer Tools Access is trying to take control of another process. Enter your password....

[anch0innk]

You must be joking!
What on earth is this? I have recently done a complete clean install of Big Mac on my iMac Pro and every couple of days I get this message when I reboot. In older posts on the web it has been associated with XCode, which I have never used and it is not installed here.

Anybody know more?

Alan

 

[IWT]

Hi Alan. That screenshot looks like a Windows’ exec function. It’s many years since I was actively involved with Windows so it may be best to wait for more learned opinion on that.

Ian

 

[Applescrumpy]

According to the post referenced below, “the most likely explanation of what's going on is that the developer of an app that you installed has enabled a debugging feature which triggers this message. The setting of this debug setting on a public release version may have been an oversight …..” .

I guess you will need to check any apps you’ve installed recently or any that have been updated.

Developer tools access needs to take control ...

 

[Applescrumpy]

There may be a solution here:

Stop "developer tools access needs to take control of another process for debugging to continue" alert

I recently upgraded to 10.7.3, and when I try to debug my iOS project in the simulator for the first time after logging in, I'm prompted with the following two alerts: My user is an admin user. I ...

stackoverflow.com

 

[anch0innk]

Hi Applescrumpy (haven't had any of that for years. Next time I visit Somerset/Devon I'll look forward to some...the family are from Devon.)
I saw that discussion too. Trouble is, it's fairly old and the Terminal work around (sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership <username>) didn't want to work. I then tried the simpler alternative (DevToolsSecurity -enable) and the OS accepted that. Now I'll have to see if that worked.