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Why does iTerm, Code and VLC require privacy permission to do any read/write to those protected folders but google chrome does NOT need to require anything. PS4: I just find out the Google Chrome.app downloaded from can write to (save file to) ~/Downloads/ folder directly without requiring any privacy permission too. PS3: The "downloading tool app" is a GUI app. work you must enable Prefs > General > Applications in terminal may access clipboard. #ALLOW ITERM TO ACCESS DOWNLOADS INSTALL#PS2: This is a fresh install of MacOS Big Sur. When you install Shell Integration from the iTerm2 > Install Shell. If anyone consider I should give the name to get a better help, just let me know. PS1: I haven't mentioned the "downloading tool app" name here because that is a non-English app. File > Open File > Choose any files inside the three protected folders) (Note that, later I found out Google Chrome App can read/write those protected folders too without asking this privacy permission. I thought those protected folders were protected and were not allowed to be read/write before granting privacy permission. #ALLOW ITERM TO ACCESS DOWNLOADS DOWNLOAD#Press Enter in the Terminal window to download headermain.gif to your computer. I am very confused how can that app read/write the file to ~/Downloads without requiring a privacy permission on the protected folder. Well have more to say about iTerm later in this chapter. I checked the Privacy setup in System Preferences and it does NOT have that app setup too. It can also display/read all the files in the ~/Downloads folder. (the same way I installed iTerm2) I tried to use that tool to download a file to ~/Downloads folder and the file can be downloaded and written to ~/Downloads folder directly without any permission requirement. ![]() For example, its possible to set read only access to. I ended up using a normal profile and then restricting some things that way. File permissions permit users different types of permissions to read and write files. The above screenshot is where I can change the folders privacy setup.īut, today, I downloaded an app (it's a downloading tool) and installed it by dragging it to /Applications folder. Current situation is that the Google play store is installed on the adult profile, that is not visible on the kids account and play store installed apps cannot be added to the kids profile as content either. (basically when I execute ls ~/Downloads/ commands in iTerm2) The above screenshot appears when the app iTerm2 tries to access ~/Downloads folder at the first time in Big Sur. I will put two screenshots here to clarify what I mean: When it tries to access those folders at the first time, there will be a popup window to ask for permission and the permission can be setup in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Files and Folders.Įdited: It seems my bad description makes people confused (sorry about my English). In MacOS Big Sur, I figured out an app (downloaded from internet) normally can not access ~/Downloads/, ~/Documents/, ~/Desktop/ folders directly. ![]()
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