Shell to Disable/Enable Gatekeeper?

Targets macOS
1

Hello,

I found this link…
http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/allow-apps-from-anywhere-macos-gatekeeper/
which allows the user to Disable and Enable gatekeeper via Terminal.

How could I code that in my app so that I do not have to open Terminal?

I have this…

        Dim GatekeeperCommand as String = "sudo spctl --master-disable"
        Dim GatekeeperShell as new Shell
        GatekeeperShell.Execute GatekeeperCommand

I am aware that the password somehow has to be added.

Thanks.

Lennox

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AFAIK you cannot sudo from shell, and Terminal is not scriptable.

You know, the best way to have Gatekeeper leave you alone is to sign your application.

3

Thanks Michel
Lennox

4

When Gatekeeper got locked down, Apple also locked sudo down by setting the requiretty sudo flag so that you can’t using the old sudo -S option to pass the password through as an argument like this:

echo thePassword | sudo -S /usr/bin/true (works through 10.9 and some 10.10)

You could get the user to modify their /private/etc/sudoers file, but that requires the same level of access as asking them to run that sptcl command.

As Michel states, the best answer is to codesign your apps