Kap: Permission to update pops up every few hours

[carstenhag]

macOS version: 10.14.6
Kap version: Version 3.0.1

Steps to reproduce

Wait some hours. Popup pops up.

Current behaviour

Permission popup with "Kap wants permission to... " or similar pops up every few hours, but even after giving it that, it pops up again in some hours.

Pretty sure this was introduced with the 3.0 update, as before I didn't have this issue.

Expected behaviour

It only pops up when it has to install an update.

[skllcrn]

I see that you are on an older version of macOS @carstenhag, have you experienced the issue in a more recent version of the OS?

[carstenhag]

I only have one Mac, and I have not updated yet, I know :p. Not sure when I'll be updating, I'm still waiting.

[andantonelli]

Same problem here. And I have macOs regular updated at 10.15.3
Thanks!

[karaggeorge]

We are using this which says if it has asked once it won't ask again and the user has to manually go change it in the Preferences. I'll do some investigation on my system (10.14) and I might need to open an issue with them

[karaggeorge]

Just to make sure, what type of permissions dialog are you seeing? Is it the microphone one, or something different?

@andantonelli @carstenhag

[andantonelli]

@karaggeorge this:

Translation: "Kap is trying to add a new helper. Insert password..."

[carstenhag]

Exactly. Probably doesn't happen to many people. Only to those which have a second user with admin rights, some company macbooks like mine are set up like that.

[karaggeorge]

Huh, well that is not what I was expecting. I have never seen that dialog. I'll try creating a new user on my laptop and trying to see if I can replicate

[karaggeorge]

Apparently that seems to be an issue for other Apps as well in a similar setup. Can you guys try some of these solutions and see if that fixes it:

• https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/271123
• https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/7058#issuecomment-283698557

[carstenhag]

Alright, I've changed the permissions, let's see if it stops nagging me :).

sudo chown -R carstenh:staff Kap.app
pwd
  /Applications/Kap.app
ls -la
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x   3 carstenh  staff    96 Nov 30 21:25 .
  drwxrwxr-x+ 77 root      admin  2464 Mar 26 16:25 ..
  drwxr-xr-x   9 carstenh  staff   288 Nov 30 21:29 Contents

[carstenhag]

Still showing up (I also quit and opened Kap again) :(

[carstenhag]

Visual Studio Code also shows this popup, but only when it's preparing for an update. After the update was completed, it doesn't show up again. Maybe look into how they have solved this?

$ ls -la Kap.app Visual\ Studio\ Code.app
Kap.app:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 carstenh  staff    96 30 Nov 21:25 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 77 root      admin  2464 30 Mär 12:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x   9 carstenh  staff   288 30 Nov 21:29 Contents

Visual Studio Code.app:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    96 23 Mär 18:48 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 77 root  admin  2464 30 Mär 12:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x   9 root  wheel   288 24 Mär 09:09 Contents

[andantonelli]

• https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/271123

This seems work for me! About a day without a notice.
Thanks!

[karaggeorge]

@carstenhag looks like Kap and VS Code have a different owner and group (crastenh/staff vs root/wheel) any chance you can have Kap under the same owner and try again?

[carstenhag]

Before I had ran chown, the owners were root:admin.

[carstenhag]

In the meanwhile I have updated to the latest Mac version. The issue does not occur anymore, but I can't pinpoint whether the Mac update fixed it or my chown attempt.

Should we close this or take a look at how other electron apps do it? VS code, Postman and Abstract show the same pop-ups, but they never showed the Kap behavior.

[carstenhag]

It's still happening, not sure why I had commented back then that it's fixed.