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#SETTING PERMISSIONS ON MAC OS X FULL#
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Automation: This allows apps to control other apps.

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Bluetooth: This allows apps to access and modify your Bluetooth settings.

This includes information from Siri and your Homepod devices.

HomeKit: Apps with access to your Homekit can access your Home information.

Be especially careful about which apps you grant access to screen recording. Malicious app developers can gain access to private information this way.

Screen Recording: Apps that have access to screen recording can record what is happening on your screen and possibly transmit that data.

These include your Documents folder, Downloads folder, removable drives, network connections, and your desktop. Click the checkbox next to all files or folders you want to allow the app to access.

Files and Folders: This displays a list of files and folders you can allow or disallow an app to have access to.

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Malicious apps can use full disk access to access and transmit your personal information as well as make malicious modifications to your system. Be especially careful which apps you grant full disk access to. This includes files and data from other apps. Full Disk Access: Apps with full disk access can access and modify any files or data on your mac.Be especially careful which apps you grant access to input monitoring. Input Monitoring: Apps that have access to input monitoring can view what you type with your keyboard, mouse, or trackpad.Generally, these apps are supposed to make it easier for you to use your Mac, but malicious apps may be able to control your mac in harmful ways. Accessibility: Apps that have access to your accessibility settings and run scripts that control your Mac.Speech Recognition: This shows apps that have access to your speech recognition files from Siri.These apps may be able to access your microphone and transmit data while running in the background. Microphone: Apps that have access to your microphone can activate and record audio using your mac's microphone.A green light will appear next to your camera when it is active. These apps may be able to access your camera and transmit data while running in the background. Camera: Apps that have access to your camera may turn on and record images and video using your mac's camera.

Photos: Apps that have access to your photos can view, modify, or delete photos in your Photos folder on iCloud.

Reminders: Apps that have access to your reminders can add, change, and delete reminders you have set.

Calendars: Apps that have access to your calendars can change, delete, and add new dates in your calendars.

Be careful which apps you grant access to your contacts. They may also be able to view and transmit your contacts and their personal information.

Contacts: Apps that have access to your contacts are able to access and modify your list of contacts.

Location Services: Apps that have access to your location services are able to tell your exact location when Location Services is turned on.

Some apps may need access to multiple system features. Clicking any of the listed system features displays a list of apps that have requested permission to the feature. The different system features are listed in the panel to the left.

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It's fairly easy to see how powerful xargs can be, given its ability to act on a series of things passed to it.Click on the section you want to grant permission for. It basically executes the command specified (chmod in this case) for each item passed to it (the results of the 'find' command, routed via the pipe '|' symbol). 'xargs' is an interesting command, and well worth reading up on ('man xargs'). type d | xargs chmod 777This does exactly what I needed it to do. A post to the MacNN forums provided the answer, courtesy of "Icampbell": find. I was sure there was an easier way, but had no idea what that way might be. I was reduced to mass changing everything in a folder (chmod 666 *), and then setting the directories by hand. The phpnuke package installs literally hundreds of files, and probably 25-50 subdirectories. "Set all files to 666 permission set all directories to 777." Although this is relatively trivial for multiple identical items (chmod 777 *), it's a bit trickier when files and directories are mixed in the structure, with sub-directories and sub-files, and different settings for directories and files. Last night, as I began experimenting with possible successors to geeklog, one package (phpnuke) had an instruction step that read: