roboticcheese / chef-macosx_accessibility

Configures Mac OS X Accessibility using Jacob Salmela's tccutil

Mac OS X Accessibility Cookbook

Configures Mac OS X Accessibility using Jacob Salmela's tccutil.

Requirements

• Chef 11 or higher

Platforms

• Mac OS X - Mavericks (10.9) or higher

Usage

Requires super-user privileges. The user must have logged in previously with GUI. This creates the accessibility database (TCC.db).

Insert /usr/bin/osascript into the Accessibility database:

macosx_accessibility 'Insert osascript' do
  items ['/usr/bin/osascript']
end

Insert TextExpander into the Accessibility database:

macosx_accessibility 'Insert TextExpander' do
  items ['com.smileonmymac.textexpander', 'com.smileonmymac.textexpander.helper']
end

Remove Chrome from the Accessibility database:

macosx_accessibility 'Remove Chrome' do
  items ['com.google.chrome']
  action :remove
end

Enable Chrome (must already exist in the list):

macosx_accessibility 'Enable Chrome' do
  items ['com.google.chrome']
  action :enable
end

Disable /usr/sbin/jamfAgent (must already exist in the list):

macosx_accessibility 'Disable JAMF Agent' do
  items ['/usr/sbin/jamfAgent']
  action :disable
end

Getting Help

• Ask specific questions on Stack Overflow.
• Report bugs and discuss potential features in Github issues.

Contributing

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.

License

MIT - see the accompanying LICENSE file for details.