What’s Software Supervisor for macOS, and what does it do?
And the way can I discover out what sorts of “adjustments” it is attempting to make?
It is fairly generic, providing no description of what the adjustments include.
Is a consumer anticipated to know what this implies? As a result of if we should permit or deny based mostly solely on a intestine feeling, with no detailed data, I do not assume that such a immediate could be thought of an efficient safety measure.
However first, I do not know what “Software Supervisor” even is. I get search outcomes like: “What does an software supervisor do – roles and tasks” …nothing Mac associated. It makes me surprise if that is malware with a generic (however plausible-sounding) title, or an obscure background means of macOS.
After utilizing Xcode as bmike helpfully urged, I used to be in a position to get the next details about the pop-up window:
Superior
| Activation Level | x=2105 y=1014 |
| Automation Kind | Window |
| Cancel Button | Cancel (button) [NSButtonCell] |
| Kids | 8 gadgets |
| Kids in Navigation Order | 8 gadgets |
| Shut Button | (shut button) [_NSThemeCloseWidgetCell] |
| Default Button | OK (button) [NSButtonCell] |
| Doc | None |
| Keyboard Targeted | False |
| Body | x=2095 y=1000 w=258 h=305 |
| Full Display screen | 0 |
| Full Display screen Button | None |
| Develop Space | None |
| Most important | True |
| Reduce Button | (decrease button) [_NSThemeWidgetCell] |
| Minimized | False |
| Modal | False |
| Dad or mum | SecurityAgent (software) [SFAgentApp] |
| Place | x=2095 y=1000 |
| Proxy | None |
| Function | AXWindow |
| Sections | 1 merchandise |
| Measurement | w=258 h=305 |
| Subrole | AXStandardWindow |
| Title UIElement | None |
| Toolbar Button | None |
| Zoom Button | (zoom button) [_NSThemeZoomWidgetCell] |
Factor
Class: SFAuthenticationWindow
Hierarchy
⏷ SecurityAgent (software) [SFAgentApp]
⏷ Untitled (normal window) [SFAuthenticationWindow]
(picture) [NSImageCell]
Software Supervisor (textual content) [NSTextFieldCell]
Software Supervisor needs to make adjustments. (textual content) [NSTextFieldCell]
Enter your password to permit this. (textual content) [NSTextFieldCell]
(textual content area) [NSTextFieldCell]
(safe textual content area) [NSTextFieldCell]
Cancel (button) [NSButtonCell]
OK (button) [NSButtonCell]
So now we all know the mother or father is an app named SecurityAgent. Let’s attempt to discover out extra…
Looking “SecurityAgent” inside Exercise Monitor does reveal one course of with that title. In my case it has written 0 bytes, and browse 2.7MB. Not many beneficial particulars are listed.
In Terminal, I searched mdfind "SecurityAgent"
This produced the next outcomes:
/usr/share/man/man8/SecurityAgent.8
/System/Library/Frameworks/Safety.framework/Variations/A/MachServices/SecurityAgent.bundle
/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.1.sdk/usr/share/man/man8/SecurityAgent.8
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/usr/share/man/man8/SecurityAgent.8
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX13.1.sdk/usr/share/man/man8/SecurityAgent.8
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX11.3.sdk/usr/share/man/man8/SecurityAgent.8
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityInterface.framework/Variations/A/Headers/SFAuthorizationPluginView.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX13.1.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityInterface.framework/Variations/A/Headers/SFAuthorizationPluginView.h
/Library/Safety/SecurityAgentPlugins
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX11.3.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityInterface.framework/Variations/A/Headers/SFAuthorizationPluginView.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.1.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityInterface.framework/Variations/A/Headers/SFAuthorizationPluginView.h
And now I am truly extra confused as a result of it seems that it may very well be a reputable a part of CommandLineTools(?) It is nonetheless inconclusive.
