Turning Remote Login on or off requires Full Disk Access privileges.

I tried to do "sudo systemsetup -f -setremotelogin on" and got:

setremotelogin: Turning Remote Login on or off requires Full Disk Access privileges.

I googled this and found no information. There has been a previous post about this here, but it is in Chinese.

What can I do?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 23, 2019 10:15 AM

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Barney-15E

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Dec 23, 2019 1:41 PM in response to matthew499

sshd requires Full Disk Access.

You may be able to add it via the Security & Privacy System Preferences.

I don't know how to do so via the command line.

If you use the Sharing System prefs, enabling Remote Login gives sshd Full Disk Access.

matthew499 Author

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Dec 24, 2019 7:42 AM in response to Barney-15E

I've tried allowing full disk access via security and privacy settings, but this did not solve my problem unfortunately.

I already have Remote Login on in the system preferences. Is this perhaps the same exact thing as having remote login set on via the command line? In that case, I think the error message is just misleading and should be replaced with "remote login is already on".

Barney-15E

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Dec 24, 2019 10:19 AM in response to matthew499

It is the same thing, and it may be that you are correct in that the message is superfluous. There may be no way for it to know that it is set or not. Apple seems to be trying to isolate every process from everything else.

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Turning Remote Login on or off requires Full Disk Access privileges.