Feature Requests - Auth Descriptions

[its-a-feature]

It would be super helpful when looking at the permissions to have the following:

• Descriptions of the Auth value
• Descriptions of the Auth Reason
• Descriptions of the Permission
• Ability to click the lock icon to see more information about the application (path on disk, signing information, etc)
• Ability to filter/sort the list (ex: I want to just look at what has FDA or Camera access)
• Ability to adjust the size of the windows
• When selecting a date/time to remove a permissions, is it possible to add a date picker? For each one I click, the default is showing as 10/12/2023, 10:41 AM. I'm unsure if that's actually in the past (October 12) which would be weird as a default, or if it's the future (December 10). It would also be handy if that default value was something consistent and relative, ex: always the next day at 12pm.
• A lot of the permission names are kind of long and get chopped off (in the popups and within the table for each application)
• When checking for the locations on disk, is it exclusively looking for applications in /Applications? It seems like anything listed that's not a .app gets the ? and Bundle not found warning.
• In the separate window for the chart of access over time, the title bar hides the name of the application on dark mode since it's black text on a black background. It would also be helpful to be able to expand this window and adjust column sizes so it's easier to tell what's going on

This is a SUPER awesome project! I can't wait to see where it goes in the future! Keep it up :)

[calhall]

100% - a large number of these will be in our next minor release. A few of the larger pieces of work may roll into the next major release, but we can keep you posted on progress. The suggestions are much appreciated! 🚀

[rookuu]

When checking for the locations on disk, is it exclusively looking for applications in /Applications? It seems like anything listed that's not a .app gets the ? and Bundle not found warning.

This one is an interesting one. Would love any ideas! The problem is being able to turn an identifier into a path to the bundle/executable/whatever. Currently I use LSCopyApplicationURLsForBundleIdentifier (Thanks Patrick! 🙌)

Kronos/TCCKronos/Bundle.m

Line 18 in 0d176e1

NSArray* items = (__bridge_transfer NSArray*)LSCopyApplicationURLsForBundleIdentifier((__bridge_retained CFStringRef)identifier, nil);

This catches a whole bunch of bundles, namely the ones installed in /Applications and a few other places. It however misses out a bunch like you noticed, like com.apple.securityd for example, which is at /usr/sbin/securityd. I need to have a think about how to resolve these.

I think the answer is using mdfind, but I'm still trying to work out how it works in this case.

It looks like Spotlight isn't indexing off the identifier 🙁

 $ mdls /usr/sbin/securityd 
_kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions  = "securityd"
kMDItemContentCreationDate         = 2023-10-29 21:52:55 +0000
kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-10-21 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate     = 2023-10-21 04:18:42 +0000
kMDItemContentType                 = "public.unix-executable"
kMDItemContentTypeTree             = (
    "public.unix-executable",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.executable"
)
kMDItemDateAdded                   = 2023-10-21 04:18:42 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName                 = "securityd"
kMDItemDocumentIdentifier          = 0
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate         = 2023-10-21 04:18:42 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate              = 2023-10-21 04:18:42 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode               = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags               = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon             = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible                 = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden         = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery              = 0
kMDItemFSLabel                     = 0
kMDItemFSName                      = "securityd"
kMDItemFSNodeCount                 = 1256496
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID              = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID               = 0
kMDItemFSSize                      = 1256496
kMDItemFSTypeCode                  = ""
kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking     = 2023-10-21 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemKind                        = "Unix Executable File"
kMDItemLogicalSize                 = 1256496
kMDItemPhysicalSize                = 557056
kMDItemSupportFileType             = (
    MDSystemFile
)