/usr/bin/safaridriver for Safari 10.1.2 (12603.3.8) on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 prompts for password on every invocation; even in same shell session

Question

This:

$ /usr/bin/safaridriver -p 0
Password:
<ctrl+c>
$ /usr/bin/safaridriver -p 0
Password:

Ideally I'd love to never authenticate when starting safaridriver, but this appears to be a requirement now-- however, I have a test-runner which makes multiple invocations (one per test) of the safaridriver which means I have to type a password for every test, which is terrible.

This is a new problem for me. Seems to have cropped up sometime in the past 2 weeks. Also, prior to this, I never had to authenticate even once before to run tests with safaridriver.

Is there any way to disable the authentication requirement?

Answer 1

Please ask your system administrator to add /usr/bin/safaridriver command for the user in the sudoers file.