

An example for limited access: an application might be allowed ask the user to select some photos, but without being granted access to the User’s entire Photo library. auth_value - Whether the access is denied(0), unknown(1), allowed(2), or limited(3).

Programs can repeatedly prompt if they are not granted access the first time so this can be used to track if that’s happening.

allowed INTEGER NOT NULL, - Removed in Big Sur This response is then stored in the TCC database. When this happens the user is prompted with a dialog asking them whether they want to allow access or not. TCC for the Userįrom a user’s perspective, they see TCC in action when an application wants access to one of the features protected by TCC. TCC is not very well documented and the information you can find on it is scattered about the web with various levels of completeness. Instead we would rather have a reliable way of manipulating TCC to grant access programatically with zero human interaction. Part of the RainforestQA service is that we run all tests in fresh VMs that we keep up-to-date, and to do this we want to automate as much of the VM build process as possible and we don’t want to babysit the build process to click “allow” when dialogs pop up. TCC is an end-user protection feature, and tends to get in the way when you’re trying to provision machines in an automatic manner without user interaction. TCC also appears to exist and provide the same functionality on iOS, but in this post we’ll only be looking at TCC on macOS. TCC was introduced with OSX Mavericks and has gone through a number of changes since to expand what it has control over.
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This can include things such as location services, contacts, photos, microphone, camera, accessibility, full disk access, and a bunch more. TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control) is a mechanism in macOS to limit and control application access to certain features, usually from a privacy perspective. A deep dive into what the TCC database contains and the meaning of the various fields present in it.
