On shutdown, MAMP sometimes asks me for username and password, but not always

When I log onto my Mac OSX admin account, I have MAMP automatically start so I can get right to managing my server content. But every now and then, when I shut down my computer, the MAMP window opens up and asks for my admin name and password, and the shut down process halts until this is entered.

Any reason why it wo开发者_C百科uld only ask me in certain cases when I shut down, and not all the time? It's sometimes annoying when you shut down and it shows up when I don't expect it. I don't know what are the conditions for MAMP to ask for your admin info if you request to close the program.

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MAMP requires sudo password for shutting down the apache and/or mysql server when ports smaller than 1024 have been configured. on UNIX like systems (like Mac OS) you need "su" privileges to start/stop this IP services.

note: probably when it does not explicitly asks you for a password, you where using it a moment ago for another activity.

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Go to preferences in mamp and click reset mamp ports, it will change the ports to default.

For Apache (8888) [default for MAC OS X]

For MySQL (8889) [default for MAC OS X]