Do I have to enter a keychain value everytime when I connect wifi?

[you6878]

Thank you. I'm glad I'm using it.
Do I have to enter a keychain value everytime when I connect wifi?
Can't I enter a keychain value automatically?

[jpuris]

+1 can reproduce.

[mrodalgaard]

Hi,

The problem is that to join an access point from the terminal / bash you need the wifi password (using networksetup -setairportnetwork ). And to get the wifi password of a known access point you need the administration permissions. The application is actually fetching the wifi password from your keychain once you give it the rights to do so. See https://github.com/mrodalgaard/alfred-network-workflow/blob/master/src/ap.sh#L13 which is causing the popup you are showing in your issue.

There is however a workaround shortly described by forgetfuljames at https://superuser.com/a/1046481/439307 and in more details by Allan Odgaard at https://macromates.com/blog/2006/keychain-access-from-shell/ . To summarise; you can add the security application as an allowed application to the specific wifi password in your keychain. Thereby security is allowed to fetch the wifi password as mentioned above without prompting for administration permissions.

If you think this will be helpful for others, I will add instructions to the README.

[mrodalgaard]

For now I will note this in the README and link to the above quick fix. I do not want this Alfred extension to be responsible for storing the users access point passwords.