macOS Sierra always prompts for credentials for network drives

in the app store, security update 2016-002 just made itself available. i was reading thru the list of security "holes" it plugs. one in particular got my attention:

OpenSSH

Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.3

Impact: Connecting to a server may leak sensitive user information, such as a client's private keys

Description: Roaming, which was on by default in the OpenSSH client, exposed an information leak and a buffer overflow. These issues were addressed by disabling roaming in the client.

does this impact connections with NAS drives ?

reminder: i am on OS X 10.11.6, not 10.12.

i decided to apply 2016-002 and so far the persistent authentication for connecting to my shares has not appeared - i am still using 10.11.6.

PleasantSpectrum,

i can see how apple would want to try to prohibit someone or a program which is not authorized from connecting to a network share, and that itself would be a great functionality of an OS.

sierra implementation is not working for us, we are connecting to a server with root privileges in the OS, which i think should be good enough to not have to worry much about unauthorized access to a home network NAS or other device.

has anyone ever encountered a situation like that where unauthorized access to their NAS happened from a mac or windows box within their network ?

Is anyone having issues where Finder will crash when moving files to their NAS? Re: macOS Sierra: Finder Crashing

I too only connect to my NAS, and after switching to Sierra, the automatic - without re-prompt for credentials was, and still is "Broke". But I did find one thing that fixed mine, and it was a program I read on another post here, called AutoMounter,...shouldn't have to use a third-party app for something that was working fine, but at least I'm connecting without that annoying re-prompt now.

We have this problem across our whole office too! We are very much regretting updating to Sierra. 😠

It can't be a "feature" as Apple claims because the logic is very flawed.

It totally contradicts the point of the keychain and saving credentials. If this new feature was intended to improve security then the user should be required to actually enter the credentials at the prompt, and saving should not be an option. However the since the credentials are saved in the keychain, this subsequent user interaction is absolutely unnecessary and makes no sense. It's only a nuisance to require user interaction for authentication where the credentials are already saved in the keychain.

Hence imho this is a BUG!

I don't think Apple intends this behavior. in fact, Apple's own support page contradicts that assertion:

macOS Sierra: Connect to shared computers and file servers on a network

I'm not talking about auto mounting a share but this issue exists when trying to connect manually to a network drive as well. I suspect the bug is security related in some way, but it's beyond me. Maybe 10.12.2 will address the issue.

i hope so. Now i have resolve with automounter app. You can find it on mac app store..

can anyone tell .... what the latest version of 10.12 is at the moment ?

I had this issue with 10.12 and 10.12.1...both final releases. I have not tried the current beta, 10.12.2 released yesterday, to see if the issue persists.

Adding the server to the dock (right side) worked for me. No more nasty requests for the already stored credentials.

shouldn't have to do that to have relatively painless share automounting.

i am disappointed looking at this situation and ppls responses - different ppl have different experiences and it hints varying degrees of fragmentation amongst different users. isn't apple supposed to stand for better ? regardless of mac mini, imac, macbook, etc... the same OS platform should work relatively the same on recent mac computers.

looking at the direction apple headed in with the macbook pro, it's obvious they no longer care much for the mac platform in general .... the new lineup introduced is disappointing imo (lacking CPU, lacking RAM, lacking SSD, etc., what's offered is not worth the asking price even with the macOS experience). how are audio and video pros supposed to do their work on a 16GB ram ceiling that is the same as some macbooks from nearly 4 years ago ? "they made it thinner" you might say and the serious mac users would say "who cares"

seeing that trend, i wouldn't place all my eggs in this nest as a primary OS, still keeping win10 running on the other partition for dependencies.

Sorry, it did not.

It worked (surprisingly) just once. Today it is back to normal - nasty password confirmation required.

Apple...? C'mon!

Uh, I've been having this problem too. Not only that, but my drives seem to be dismounting every so often.. not sure if its related or not. (Synology DSM 6.0.2-8451 Update 2) SMB or AFP are acting no different.

I'm trying to set a constant ping to see if my connections will stay. I can live temporarily with the login issue but the disconnects are creating real issues.

Might try the latest beta update Sierra as well and see if there are any changes.

has any recent update to Sierra fixed this issue ?

i would say at this point if there is still not a fix, NAS and Server users are getting pretty fed-up with Apple not fixing it.

Saying this is a feature does not make it better. 😉

Designing a car with a blacked out windshield for sun protection as a feature does not eliminate the problem of having to drive with your head out the driver's door.