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Is there a convenient way to sandbox non-appstore apps? It's a real chore to figure out what apps that aren't available through the appstore (Chrome, VSCode, e
by krono 6y ago
Is there a convenient way to sandbox non-appstore apps?
It's a real chore to figure out what apps that aren't available through the appstore (Chrome, VSCode, etc.) are doing to my computer. So much so that I'd rather just castrate them by default and deal with breakage later.
- s3cur3 6y agoAs a developer, assuming your app isn’t doing stuff not supported in sandbox mode, it’s as easy as a checkbox. As a user, Catalina’s absurd barrage of dialogs asking for your permission for an app to so much as look at your data may be annoying, but the dialogs are at least potentially effective. (For instance, I’ve disallowed Dropbox from touching anything outside its folder—despite it trying to access everything.)
- saagarjha 6y agoYes: add the com.apple.security.app-sandbox entitlement and re-sign the app.