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Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file

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Re: Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does, the hardware owner merely has to tell macOS what it wants. Open a Terminal and type: sudo spctl —-master-disable And you’ll be able to run as many unnotarized apps as you wish, just by double clicking them. However, if the hardware owner wants to disallow unnotarized software, macOS should enforce that policy.

Technically you have to reboot into Recovery to run this command.

No, you’re thinking of csrutil --disable for turning off System Integrity Protection. You don’t have to do that to run unnotarized apps.

Re: Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file

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TextEdit is a wealth of problems it seems.

Only if you consider a computer, owned by a user, following that user's explicit command to run a piece of software (without further hindrance) "a problem". It would be nice if the rest of the macOS respected the wishes of the hardware's owner equally.

TextEdit is great. Don’t get me wrong. But pretending like the security problems it has are a feature explicitly requested by the user is... bizarre.
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