• Mac OS X,  Mac Security

    Reviewing TCC dialog prompts using logs on a Mac

    February 17, 2021

    I wrote this awhile back on using the logging facilities in macOS to review and parse logs. The log command provides a number of options to see various events on a Mac. I was recently working on an app that was automatically denying a prompt to generate entitlements and thought I’d post how to find the logs for that. First, let’s find all prompts. We’ll do that using the com.apple.TCC subsystem as a predicate. In the below command we simply pipe the output to grep for Prompting. /usr/bin/log show -style syslog --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TCC"' --info --last 12h | grep Prompting I’d much rather use “&& contains” in syslog because…

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  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    WWDC Tickets On Sale

    April 25, 2012

    Apple has put tickets on sale for the WorldWide Developer Conference, from June 11th to June 15th in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Last year, the conference sold out really quickly, so might want to jump on buying tickets if you want to go. One thing can be pretty easily assumed, there will be plenty of talk about Mountain Lion (and maybe a new beta/DP as well).

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  • Ubuntu,  Unix

    Looking at Google Android's Internals

    July 28, 2009

    Google’s Android is a very small Linux distribution. Recently I needed to test some applications that were developed by a couple of friends of mine. Rather than run out to T-Mobile I figured I’d just install the new LiveAndroid disk and thought I would write up how to get setup using VMware Fusion and then go about doing some tasks with Android. To get started make sure you’re running the latest Fusion (or Parallels or Q or VirtualBox). Then download two ISO files from http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 and liveandroidv0.2.iso.002. Once you have downloaded the two ISO files we’re going to need to join them.  To do so cat liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 >…

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