Permanently disable all nagging questions about (= always allow) App Developer and Accessibility/Control of computer

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Permanently disable all nagging questions about (= always allow) App Developer and Accessibility/Control of computer

Hello,

I don't want any lecture of why I shouldn't do this. I just want to know if it's possible.

Can I let OSX Catalina ALWAYS let all apps that I start control anything without having to go through one million dialogues of me having to manually enable them?
2 Always allow applications from unidentified developers.

It's apparent that OSX has become an operating system for non-professionals. I frankly don't understand how anyone can put up with this when using a machine in a professional environment, using macros, scripts, automator, per project basis.

I just started up one of my common softwares and got 6 differents questions about allowance. I don't need the system to protect me from myself.

Best,

Andreas

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 26, 2020 4:27 AM

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Answer 1

etresoft

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Aug 27, 2020 6:40 AM in response to zantac

zantac wrote:

Can you please describe how to achieve this?

No. The Apple Support Communities Use Agreement specifically forbids any submissions that are harmful.

You can go to Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access and give your standard softwares Full Disk Access. They will no longer trigger the confirmation dialogs for each folder they access.

Terminal is not a tool for automation. Perhaps you should look into writing scripts instead. Then your automator scripts can just “do shell script” without involving Terminal.

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zantac Author

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Aug 27, 2020 2:00 AM in response to dialabrain

I hope you're wrong.

Let me describe a day for me:

Yesterday I updated one of my standard softwares. I got 6 dialogues when re-opening this. It asked for every folder separately.
Every project I have uses different automator scripts to do things. For every new project I need to respond to 3 dialogues about accessibility. And after responding "Yes" to all dialogues, it STILL doesn't work. So I have to manually open the Privacy settings, find where the **** Apple has put the allowance what I need to do (for typing stuff into Terminal, running other automated processes through other software, etc). Unlock with password. Checkbox. Try again. Sometimes that doesn't work. Close everything, same process again.

I understand that these security routines are good for noobs. But for power users it's a pain. It would be a serious workflow flaw if this cannot be bypassed.

For me, this is about 1 hour per week in just getting my software run properly by trying to bypass the privacy settings.

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Answer 3

zantac Author

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Aug 27, 2020 7:10 AM in response to etresoft

This is not about "harm", it's about information of how to use the system properly, and it's information that should be publicly avaliable for those who needs it. If you were to supply me with spyware or disputable third party software, that would be harmful. EDIT: it's also stated under the "Be Polite" paragraph, it's not related to any technical details.

The Terminal needs to be open in this case since I'm using a injection/file change watcher (gulp / npm) that I need to see, visually, so either way, the Terminal needs to open launching a line or a script. This is how I've worked for 2,5 years, before being forced to upgrade to Catalina due to Logic Pro X not being supported on High Sierra anymore.

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