"distiller" user password for allowing system extension in macos VM

[ashkurenko]

Hey everyone, we’re using macos virtual machines to run ui/e2e tests and it’s impossible (as far as I know) to activate system extension without user password. Could we know password of distiller user in virtual machine so we could type it or maybe there is another way to allow loading of system extension in the virtual machine (for example by providing mobileconfig somewhere during VM setup)

(this is where password is requested, image is from here: How to Enable System Extensions on Apple M1/M2/M3 Mac?)

[ashkurenko]

We solved this by creating user (because we have sudo) with admin rights and known password and gave permissions using its login/password

sudo /usr/sbin/sysadminctl -addUser newadmin -fullName "New Admin" -password somepassword -admin