Running safaridriver thorugh ssh always asks password

Question

I would like to run safari selenium test in virtual machine on virtualbox.

I have running macOS Sierra 10.12 inside virtual box. Tutorials say that you need to run <

Answer 1

This is a known issue in Safari 10 with no known workaround, except to use a terminal via the window server.

On Safari 11+, safaridriver only requires you to run safaridriver --enable, and the authentication will be cached for the rest of the login session. So, you should just add this to your script that logs into the machine.

There is a separate issue that safaridriver does not work if you have ssh'd in and there is no window server running. There is no workaround for this at the moment–the machine needs a GUI session to run Safari and webdriver.