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Macbooks at Work

I use a macbook at work. I work in Cyber Security and one time when I was trying to run the tool Chainsaw I recieved a permission error despite using the right-click > open work around.

If Apple devices give you a permissions error run the command below.

To disable Gatekeeper from the command-line:

sudo spctl --master-disable

disabling gatekeeper

To enable Gatekeeper from the command-line:

sudo spctl --master-enable

enabling gatekeeper

To confirm the command has worked:

spctl --status

check gatekeeper status

This should report back assessments disabled or asessments enabled to indicate the status of Gatekeeper depending on the command that has been used.