Sending email OSX wants to make changes

Everytime I send an email I get the popup saying OSX wants to make changes. Type an administrator s name and password to allow this. Help!

Sabian, I looked at the suggested link, but don't have experience with OS X to know really how to do this. Since it seems to be the self healing feature, I tried the following and it worked.
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I found a fix, but it may not be a smart thing... Thoughts are appreciated as I'm not terribly saavy with OS X. I read that this may have something to do with the self heal feature and there were a few posts that talked about editing a SHInit.xml file. What if I just renamed that file? If it broke something, I could always rename it back – or uninstall/reinstall as a last resort.
I right-clicked on the Adobe Acrobat Pro.app and selected "Show Package Contents." In the Contents folder is the MacOS folder and in MacOS is the SHInit.xml file. I copied the file to my desktop and then renamed the file in the MacOS folder to something obvious: ##SHInit.xml.
Now, when I run Adobe Acrobat Pro.app, it loads without requiring a password.
If anyone has any burning reasons as to why and how this is dangerous, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback.
Thanks!

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During install of Elements 12 from box set DVD, the DVD will download to my Apple laptop And allows me to progress through registration etc. until it comes time for the actual install. When I click the Insall button on the Install screen, I get a window that says, "Setup wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." There is a box for Name: and a box for Password: I have tried my Adobe username, my email address and anything else anyone has called me in my life in the Name: box and I have tried my Adobe password, my Apple password, etc. NOTHING works when I click the OK button. What am I supposed to put in these two boxes, and if I already entered the correct info, what is wrong???

Hi Erzots,
It want your System's Admin password. Standard procedure on Mac for non-admin users.
The same has been discussed below:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6244362
Regards,
Gurleen

Completer wants to make changes. Type in your password...

Got this message this morning. Never seen it before, and after searching on the 'Net, I was lead to Apple Communities. After reading through comments there, I was lead to try EtreCheck. Here is the report:
Problem description:
Got a message:
“Completer wants to make changes. Type in your password to allow this.”
EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated January 8, 2015 at 8:28:13 AM CST
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro7,1
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And, trust me, I would NOT enter a password!
I was preaching, but you would be surprised that people do that
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On startup, I get "Completer wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." Some searched links indicated Genieo Addware. I do not have a Genieo Application installed yet, but I do have com.genieo.completer.* files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. How do I get this out without killing myself?
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Use Thomas R. Great Adware remover free app http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php
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Hello ozne,
as a first step please have a look at these "General infos about the Adobe Account"
https://www.adobe.com/account.html and http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/find-serial-number.html.
Did you purchase your product from these firms like Amazon? If yes, this is not a serial number, only a code with which you can request a serial number from Adobe. Please have a look at http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/find-serial-number.html. (Start here: How did you purchase your product?)
The following part, so I just see at least, ceased to exist on my Adobe website, everything takes place in the link from above. I leave it as an info yet, it might still fit for you. For this purpose, please click your way through to your Adobe Store and find the button "Get Serial Number". Fill in the form and after a while you will get the real serial number.
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Opening ReaderX causes "This program wants to make changes to your computer" warning.

I'm using Windows7.
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Repeated 'mac OS X wants to make changes' prompt

In the last few days, I have started seeing a really annoying problem.
Some apps (e.g. Shrook) have now started displaying the prompt
Mac OS X wants to make changes. Type an administrator's name and password to allow this.
Mac OS X wants to use the "System" keychain.
Username:
Password:
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It seems to me that the app doesn't seem to know who it is running as - hence the empty username field.
- chris

I just solevd it :-)
I went to keychain access and reset my default keychain ...
After a system reboot and some certificate reimports, everyting is now fine.
Maybe my key chain got messed up?
Anyway, a reste on the keychain worked a treat ...
- chris

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This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
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If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. You can demote it back to standard status when this step has been completed.
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command.
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Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
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In the Terminal window, type this:
resetpassword
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Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
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 ▹ Restart
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Suddenly I have problems moving files to the trash... get a dialog saying Finder wants to make changes and I must provide the password... Any explanation or ideas how I can get this to stop?

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~/.Trash
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Services ▹ Show Info
from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.
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4. In the General section, uncheck the box marked Locked if it's checked.
5. From the action menu (gear icon) at the bottom of the dialog, select Apply to enclosed items and confirm.
6. Close the Info window and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

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I recently downloaded yosemite and am trying to put items from my HD into trash. I keep getting a message "Finder wants to make changes. Type password."

That message will appear if you attempt to delete items from Applications, among other reasons. It is there to confirm you know what you're doing.
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I just started getting the error message below - when I drag a file to TRASH, I get the message "Finder wants to make changes. Type in your password to allow this. Why ? and how to to stop this request ?

I just started getting the error message below, when I drag a file to TRASH, I get the message "Finder wants to make changes. Type in your password to allow this." Why ? and how to to stop this request ?

There should be nothing native to the OS X which would ask for a password
or other information on a restart, unless accompanied by the traditional login
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There are adware or marginal products that could be called malware (bad)
that would impose their presence and some items that could have been
downloaded by accident or through some corrupted free software site; of
those some could ask for and gain permission to go through your Mac
and maybe even run in the background to do other nefarious misdeeds.
You could see if startup in SafeBoot allows you access past that the Completer.
Since I don't have a pile of helpful article links on how to resolve various issues
I'd be looking them up one way or another.
There are some helpful items in the site http://thesafemac.com - see Tech Guides
listed (adware, malware, & performance) plus a link to the adwaremedic page.
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