When Tableau Desktop signs in or publishes to Tableau Server on Mac OS, an error will display:
external web browser authentication is used and the certs are not trusted by the browser.
It is possible to change the external web browser authentication back to the internal embedded browser authentication as noted below.
Modify a Tableau Server setting applicable to all Desktop clients.
Use the following TSM command. This setting applies to all server users across all sites:
tsm configuration set -k wgserver.authentication.desktop_externalbrowser -v false tsm pending-changes apply
Update the plist to adjust the browser setting for a specific machine.
sudo defaults write/Library/Preferences/com.tableau.Tableau-<version>.plist Settings.WorkgroupUseEmbeddedBrowserServerSignIn-integer1
Turn off the browser setting with each launch of Tableau Desktop (needs to be run every time Desktop is opened).
open -a "/Applications/Tableau Desktop 2022.1.app" --args -DOverride=ExternalBrowserOAuth:off
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