February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
17h 3m
English
MacOS has a TCC (Transparency Consent and Control) database that contains all the settings for privacy controls, including the “allow” lists. This will provide information about what programs are allowed what privileges. The TCC DB can be found in:
/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db
When a user is prompted to allow or not a particular property such as location, that choice is kept in the plist file found at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning.plist. You can read .plist files with
plutil -p file.plist
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