mherger wrote: 
> > Yes. I'd like to figure out whether there was a way to make macOS
> bring 
> > up the "allow access?" prompt programmatically. I was wondering
> whether 
> > I don't see it because I had been running early betas already.
> 
> Ok, I got something. Found a command to reset all those settings. But 
> things are complicated... depending on how LMS got started, the 
> application requesting permissions would vary - if it asked at all.
> 
> - when asked right after installation, the prompt would ask whether 
> you'd like to give the installer permission to access a network drive or
> 
> whatever. But as soon as you restarted LMS that would no longer work, as
> 
> the installer would no longer be the "owner" of the process.
> 
> - when started from the control panel, the owner would be bash (or sh in
> 
> older versions of LMS). Alas, these tools seem to not ask for
> permission.
> 
> - when started automatically at system startup, the launch item would 
> launch slimserver.pl directly, rather than the helper script used by the
> 
> control panel. That's why you'll need to give the perl executable full 
> access. But like bash it's not asking for it...
> 
> - I'm mostly running LMS from the terminal, as I'm only developing on 
> Mac. That's why I never was asked for permissions: the first time I 
> launched the terminal I was asked for full disk access. LMS would 
> inherit these, as it's owned by the terminal.
> 
> Which means I'll have to find a way how to trigger the prompt from a 
> running LMS, no matter how it's been started... Wish me luck with that!
> -- 
> 
> Michael

Right, I was never asked permission. Or if I was, it was very unclear to
me and I probably said "no". It certainly didn't happen when I launched
LMS, nor when I did a fresh install of the nightly.

Good luck, indeed! :)


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