Why does Avery NXR ask for my password?
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WireGuard needs root to create a `utun` device and modify the system routing table. The prompt is the standard macOS admin dialog.
We use AppleScript's `do shell script ... with administrator privileges` — the same mechanism the official WireGuard.app for macOS uses. macOS caches your password for ~5 minutes per process, so toggling on then off in the same session usually only prompts once. We never store your password; macOS handles authentication entirely. If you'd rather configure a launchd-installed privileged helper (zero prompts after install), that's tracked as a V2 follow-up.
Live recipes need the desktop
This article is a static preview. The in-app Help sidecar inside Avery NXR can fire each step against your live project — install the desktop to use it interactively.