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Recently my mac has started asking me for a password after I use cd in Terminal.app (haven't tested other term apps).

strangely though, if I press ctrl-C when the passowrd is asked, the question goes away and I'm left in the dir I was cd-ing to (as one would expect).

how can I find out what this password is needed for or how to stop this? I'm using zsh

EDIT:

The terminal asks for a password at random moments, for random directories. Not a clue as to any pattern. The output is basically:

cd ~/Downloads
Password:

I think this started happening after I installed JewelryBox.app

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A few more details would probably be helpful here. Does it happen with all cd commands or only for specific directories? If the second, any idea on what these have in common and/or what puts them apart from the others? Also posting a screenshot (or a text copy) of the message (and the cd part) would give some hints. – patrix♦ Mar 7 at 13:41
Can you write some output in Terminal like whence cd, which cd, echo $SHELL. It seems this command is different than builtin – Eir Nym Mar 7 at 14:44
echo $SHELL gives /bin/zsh and which says cd: shell built-in command. whence cd just says cd. I remmeber there is a zsh thing you can enable as to see all the commands executed when you do something, xset or something like that but I cannot remember exactly what. – romeovs Mar 7 at 16:45
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set -x that was it. cd-ing to a dir outputs a lot stuff, including a lot of references to rvm, rubies, ... so I think the culprit must be JewelryBox or any of it's installed rvms. – romeovs Mar 7 at 16:48
@romeovs - consider adding an answer to your question below to help those who find this question in the future. – zwerdlds Mar 7 at 17:22

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