Always Prompted for Password

Hello,

I suspect this may be an OS X issue but every time I start Windows through Parallels, I am prompted to enter my system password. Is there some way to turn this off?

Thanks.

 

I'm going to venture a guess that you've set up your machine with an admin account and a user account and are launching parallels from a user account. This is my config and I have the same issue. I've noticed that Parallels unmounts the drive that Windows is installed on and if you're using it from a regular user account and not the admin account that it was installed from this would account for one of the password requests (I get two). It is a bit annoying. Not sure of the solution.

 

For what it's worth, I run from an admin account and I get the password prompt too; the unmounting of the Windows drive is what needs the password.

 

It is normal - because unmount operations can perform only root or user in sudoers group.
Even if you have administration right , for every sensitive operation Mac asks password

 

If this is an issue with needing to unmount the bootcamp drive from the Mac OS, is there any way to prevent it from mounting in the first place?

 

No, it is not possible- Parallels Desktop needs to gain full access to device to boot VM

 

Password req'd when starting XP

I've done a bit of sleuthing and am curious whether or not removing the comment from the %wheel line in /private/etc/sudoers would allow me to start a Parallels-7 virtual machine with Windows XP and not require entering a password?

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

-- Jerry