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spctl — Manage the security assessment policy subsystem. Utility for managing Gatekeeper in macOS. More info

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Problem

How to use the spctl command: Manage the security assessment policy subsystem. Utility for managing Gatekeeper in macOS. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/spctl.8.html>.

Solution

spctl — Manage the security assessment policy subsystem. Utility for managing Gatekeeper in macOS. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/spctl.8.html>.

Turn off Gatekeeper:
spctl --master-disable


Add a rule to allow an application to run (labeling of rule is optional):
spctl --add --label {{rule_name}} {{path/to/file}}


Turn on Gatekeeper:
spctl --master-enable


List all rules on the system:
spctl --list

Code Snippets

Turn off Gatekeeper

spctl --master-disable

Add a rule to allow an application to run (labeling of rule is optional)

spctl --add --label {{rule_name}} {{path/to/file}}

Turn on Gatekeeper

spctl --master-enable

List all rules on the system

spctl --list

Context

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