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codebytere / node-mac-permissions

A native node module to manage system permissions on macOS.
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Proposal to support Automation permissions #65

Open ArtemAvramenko opened 11 months ago

ArtemAvramenko commented 11 months ago

The library does a great job with almost all Privacy settings.

But it lacks support for Automation. It would be great to be able to check permission like this:

permissions.getAuthStatus('automation', 'com.apple.SystemEvents')

And ask for automation permission like this:

permissions.askForAutomation('com.apple.SystemEvents')

To check this, some simple automation command from Standard Suite can be tried to run, such as count:

tell app id 'some.your.application' to get count

And if the command returns an error, request permission via a call like this:

open x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Automation
codebytere commented 11 months ago

@ArtemAvramenko i'm not sure what the underlying API capabilities are here but i'm happy to look into it!

ArtemAvramenko commented 11 months ago

@codebytere I think that Automation is only accessible by executing AppleScript via a system command, for example:

osascript -e 'tell app id "com.apple.Safari" to get count'

If permissions are given, the exit code will be zero. A non-zero value means that there are no permissions.

If this approach will be used, you should probably also escape the AppId to avoid script injection.