Problem setting up passwordless sudo for scripting addition

[ghost]

Hey there,

I am a new user trying to make space switching work.

• yabai v7.0.2
• macOS 14.4

I've installed the lastest version and the scripting addition according to the wiki, together with the example config (comment sign before --load-sa part is removed).

Running yabai -m space --focus 2 results in cannot focus space due to an error with the scripting-addition..

I discovered that my /tmp/yabai_<username>.err.log says sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper.

Running sudo yabai --load-sa also asks for my password.

This I assume means that sudo is not allowing the scripting addition to be executed as root without a password. I used the one-liner from the wiki to create /etc/sudoers.d/yabai, it looks like this:

root ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: sha256:67c9acb603f51b3d44e798688b4316bc013c9a3486275dfc268d02ed586c5cb5 /usr/local/bin/yabai --load-sa

Any pointers? I tried to follow the wiki strictly, everything except this weird sudo error looks good...

Thanks.

[gegoune]

First string in that file should be your username, not root.

echo "$(whoami) ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: sha256:$(shasum -a 256 $(which yabai) | cut -d " " -f 1) $(which yabai) --load-sa"

If you run that it will print what you need to add to the file, notice whoami command, if you did run it before you must have ran it as root. Run it as your regular user instead.

[ghost]

Thanks, this solved it! I had prefixed the wiki command with sudo it seems.