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Enabling screen sharing on macOS Monterey as of 12.1 beta 2
#!/bin/bash
# A cleaner alternative to this approach, but which requires a restart, is to populate TCC's SiteOverrides.plist inside
# the TCC app support directory with the following:
# <?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>Services</key>
# <dict>
# <key>PostEvent</key>
# <array>
# <dict>
# <key>Allowed</key>
# <true/>
# <key>CodeRequirement</key>
# <string>identifier "com.apple.screensharing.agent" and anchor apple</string>
# <key>Identifier</key>
# <string>com.apple.screensharing.agent</string>
# <key>IdentifierType</key>
# <string>bundleID</string>
# </dict>
# </array>
# <key>ScreenCapture</key>
# <array>
# <dict>
# <key>Allowed</key>
# <true/>
# <key>CodeRequirement</key>
# <string>identifier "com.apple.screensharing.agent" and anchor apple</string>
# <key>Identifier</key>
# <string>com.apple.screensharing.agent</string>
# <key>IdentifierType</key>
# <string>bundleID</string>
# </dict>
# </array>
# </dict>
# </dict>
# </plist>
set -eux -o pipefail
db_path="/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db"
sanity_checks() {
os_ver_major="$(sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F'.' '{print $1}')"
if [[ "${os_ver_major}" -ne 12 ]]; then
echo "This script is only tested valid on macOS 12, and we detected this system runs version ${os_ver_major}. Exiting."
exit 1
fi
if [[ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "Need to run this script as root... exiting"
exit 1
fi
# TODO: we should bail if we determine we don't have write access to the TCC db (we want to get specific SIP disable status
# for whatever is the protection for TCC)
}
disable_screensharing() {
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist
sqlite3 "${db_path}" \
"BEGIN TRANSACTION; \
DELETE FROM access WHERE client = 'com.apple.screensharing.agent'; \
COMMIT;"
}
enable_screensharing() {
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist
epoch="$(date +%s)"
sqlite3 "${db_path}" \
"BEGIN TRANSACTION; \
DELETE FROM access WHERE client = 'com.apple.screensharing.agent'; \
COMMIT; \
BEGIN TRANSACTION; \
INSERT INTO access VALUES('kTCCServicePostEvent','com.apple.screensharing.agent',0,2,4,1,NULL,NULL,0,'UNUSED',NULL,0,${epoch}); \
INSERT INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceScreenCapture','com.apple.screensharing.agent',0,2,4,1,NULL,NULL,0,'UNUSED',NULL,0,${epoch}); \
COMMIT;"
}
dump_screensharing_entries() {
sqlite3 "${db_path}" \
"SELECT * FROM access WHERE client = 'com.apple.screensharing.agent';"
}
# uncomment to show existing entries for debugging
# dump_screensharing_entries
sanity_checks
enable_screensharing
# uncomment to disable instead of enable
# disable_screensharing
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Amazing. This came in handy for me. Thank you @timsutton and @trungnt2910. (Made a fork for macos14: https://gist.github.com/nodeselector/64a0b47422f208a86602e54302944f34)

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