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> The only saving grace is that OSX asks me if I want to allow an app to access that password. What do you mean with "only". It's asking you exactly for that r
by Schlaefer 14y ago
> The only saving grace is that OSX asks me if I want to allow an app to access that password.
What do you mean with "only". It's asking you exactly for that reason.
- javajosh 14y agoI'm not entirely convinced that those dialogs can't be circumvented.
- lri 14y agoIf access for assistive devices has been enabled, you can use UI scripting to click the allow buttons: security find-generic-password -l AppleID -w & sleep 1; osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to click button 2 of group 1 of window 1 of process "SecurityAgent"' You could also use something like https://github.com/smerrill/os-x-click https://github.com/smerrill/os-x-click even if access for assistive devices wasn't enabled. security find-generic-password -l AppleID -w & sleep 1 width=$(osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" item 3 of (get bounds of window of desktop) end') x=$(($width / 2 + 155)) for y in $(seq 300 20 700); do ~/bin/click -x $x -y $y sleep 0.2 done