Re: Edit "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility" settings silently (Bill Cheeseman)
Re: Edit "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility" settings silently (Bill Cheeseman)
- Subject: Re: Edit "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility" settings silently (Bill Cheeseman)
- From: Peter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:48:48 -0400
A perfect solution would be to use the directory service and create a (company wide or enterprise) policy that is applied when the user (all users or only specific users from a group or certain device groups) logs into the computer. Unfortunately, this is not supported by the Accessibility API but might be good enough to file an enhancement request.
On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Is there a way to edit "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy
> -> Accessibility" settings (for specific application) silently without user
> interaction? I need to add one application, for all users in my company, to
> the Accessibility list via some script or something like that.
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> Probably someone can point me out in the right direction to start...
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> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:14:51 -0400
> From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
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> On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Sergey MadBish <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Is there a way to edit "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility" settings (for specific application) silently without user interaction? I need to add one application, for all users in my company, to the Accessibility list via some script or something like that.
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> My Accessibility Testbench application and source code <http://pfiddlesoft.com/accessibilitytestbench/index.html> does show you how to present your own application alert with your own wording, if you don't like the wording of the system-provided alert. However, I don't beieve you can do what you're asking without requesting and receiving the user's authentication password from each user separately.
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> For the normal user environment, you can't because Apple is concerned about security issues inherent in the accessibility API. If you could, it would defeat the purpose of the "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility" system.
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> Perhaps others can tell you whether there is a way around this in the enterprise environment where a system administrator wants to make an assistive application available to all users within the enterprise. You would presumably have to install your application on each computer in your company and enter the authentication password yourself, perhaps remotely.
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