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#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Completely reset TCC services database in macOS

Note: Both the system and individual users have TCC databases; run the script as both
      a user and as root to completely reset TCC decisions at all levels.

2018-08-15: Resetting the 'Location' service fails; unknown cause
2018-08-16: Confirmed the 'All' service does not really reset _all_
            services, so individual calls to each service is necessary.

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#!/bin/sh
sudo dscl . read /Users/$USER ShadowHashData | tail -1 | xxd -p -r | plutil -convert xml1 - -o - | sed s/data/string/ | plutil -convert json - -o $USER.json
ITERATIONS=$(jq '."SALTED-SHA512-PBKDF2".iterations' $USER.json)
SALT=$(jq '."SALTED-SHA512-PBKDF2".salt' $USER.json | sed -E 's/"?\\n\\t\\t"?//g' | base64 -D | xxd -c 256 -p)
ENTROPY=$(jq '."SALTED-SHA512-PBKDF2".entropy' $USER.json | sed -E 's/"?\\n\\t\\t"?//g' | base64 -D | xxd -c 256 -p | cut -c -128)
echo "\$ml\$$ITERATIONS\$$SALT\$$ENTROPY" > $USER.hash
hashcat -m 7100 --example-hashes | awk '/HASH/{print $2}' > example.hash
hashcat -a 3 -m 7100 example.hash "?l?l?l?l?l?l?l"

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import plistlib
import json
import tkFileDialog
import re
import sys

file_to_open = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(message="Select an existing plist or json file to convert.")
converted = None

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#!/bin/bash

## @file
## Shows CLI diff between two plist files.
##
## Normally, Mac plist files are binary, so diffs do not display. However,
## there are cases where seeing diffs is important. For example, when tracking
## changes via Mackup's git storage option.
##
## Note this option allows seeing plist diffs without fully installing Xcode

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>PayloadContent</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>PayloadContent</key>
			<dict>
				<key>com.apple.touristd</key>

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# Disable menu bar transparency
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false

# Show remaining battery time; hide percentage
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowPercent -string "NO"
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowTime -string "YES"

# Always show scrollbars
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"

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#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh

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How to Install / Bootcamp Windows 10 on a mid-2011 iMac using USB

Apple has released support for bootcamping Windows 10, but only on 2012 Macs and later. Despite not being supported. it is possible to install Windows 10 on earlier iMacs and it seems to run quite well.

IMPORTANT: Unplug all external and physical hard drives (where possible) that you won't be installing to to avoid accidentally erasing them. Also make note of which drives and partitions remain (e.g. System and Storage hard drives), and be super careful to not erase the wrong one.

RECOVERY: If you nuke your machine, restore your time machine backup. Instructions here.

Requirements

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#!/bin/bash
#
# This script backups an OS X system to an external volume, effectively 
# cloning it. It is based on [0], [1] and [2] for OS X and [3] and [4] for
# Linux. One could also use commercial tools like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy 
# Cloner. The latter website has an interesting list[5] on what files to
# exclude when cloning.
#
# Exclusions (from CCC[5]), see rsync_excludes_osx.txt
# 

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import objc, CoreFoundation, Foundation

class attrdict(dict): 
    __getattr__ = dict.__getitem__
    __setattr__ = dict.__setitem__

NetFS = attrdict()
# Can cheat and provide 'None' for the identifier, it'll just use frameworkPath instead
# scan_classes=False means only add the contents of this Framework
NetFS_bundle = objc.initFrameworkWrapper('NetFS', frameworkIdentifier=None, frameworkPath=objc.pathForFramework('NetFS.framework'), globals=NetFS, scan_classes=False)