> On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Trygve Inda wrote: > >> When users open my prefpane for the first time they get the OS quarantine >> message. Then my prefpane has to open a helper app and it pauses for about >> 30 seconds and then throws up another quarantine message... This time for >> the helper. >> >> How can I have the main app prevent the quarantine message on the helper? > > Well, if the prefpane had been in a user-writable location, the OS should have > removed quarantine on it (and everything within its bundle) automatically when > the user approved opening the item the first time. > > I would suggest iterating over your helper app's bundle and calling > LSSetItemAttribute(&<FSRef to item>, kLSRolesAll, kLSItemQuarantineProperties, > NULL) on every item in it, but that won't help if the items aren't writable. > > You can use a privileged helper tool to do this if the prefpane has been > copied to a location that's only writable by admins. In that case, you might > prefer to use removexattr() to remove the "com.apple.quarantine" attribute. > It's a bit of a hard call. On the one hand, you should generally avoid > high-level frameworks in privileged tools to minimize the attack surface. On > the other hand, I don't think that Apple has documented that quarantine > information is stored in that extended attribute, so there's no guarantee that > removing it actually accomplishes the lifting of quarantine. > > Regards, > Ken > >
The prefpane is in a user-writable location so I'll try the kLSItemQuarantineProperties suggestion. I had expected it to be cleared automatically but at least on 10.7.4 it is not. Trygve _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
