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Should auth_value be 2 when enabling? #61

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rafpaf opened this issue Aug 28, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #67
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Should auth_value be 2 when enabling? #61

rafpaf opened this issue Aug 28, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #67

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@rafpaf
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rafpaf commented Aug 28, 2022

I had trouble getting tccutil to work on macOS 12.4, but once I had enabled access to the TCC database via csrutil disable, this worked like a charm:

sudo sqlite3 "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db" "update access set auth_value = 2 where client = 'com.knollsoft.Rectangle'"

I noticed that your script currently sets auth_value to 1 and I wonder if it should use the value 2 with this version of macOS.
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Interesting. Thanks for the finding. Perhaps a conditional for that value would work well. I don't recall explicitly setting it to 1 for a specific reason but it may need to be there for older versions of macOS.

Feel free to make a PR otherwise I'll assign this to myself

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C-Duv commented Feb 26, 2024

I also noticed this on macOS 13.5 (Ventura).

According to this "macOS TCC" article on HackTricks, value 1 is for unknown and value 2 for allowed:

The auth_value can have different values: denied(0), unknown(1), allowed(2), or limited(3).

As I am using Homebrew to install tccutil, I am currently using the following sed command as a quick fix:

sed -i "" "s/{enable_mode_name}='1'/{enable_mode_name}='2'/" "$(realpath "/opt/homebrew/bin/tccutil")"

I'll file a PR…

C-Duv added a commit to C-Duv/tccutil that referenced this issue Feb 26, 2024
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fix(sql): Use auth_value=2 when enabling on macOS 12+
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The script was setting auth_value to value `1` when enabling an application/client in the tccutil database.

According to jacobsalmela#61, on macOS 12.4 and macOS 13.5 the correct value for enabling is `2`.

This commit adds a conditional value depending on OS version to use `auth_value=2` on macOS 12.0 and higher.

Issue: jacobsalmela#61
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C-Duv commented Feb 26, 2024

Done ✔️: #67.

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fix(sql): Use auth_value=2 when enabling on macOS 12+
512b611 
The script was setting auth_value to value `1` when enabling an application/client in the tccutil database.

According to #61, on macOS 12.4 and macOS 13.5 the correct value for enabling is `2`.

This commit adds a conditional value depending on OS version to use `auth_value=2` on macOS 12.0 and higher.

Issue: #61
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macOS 12+ uses auth_value=2 to enable an application C-Duv/tccutil
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