TCC in Mojave doesn’t prevent deleting local folders for AD-bound Macs

Note: We’re currently using a setup of Force local home directory on startup disk for AD-bound Macs instead of Create mobile account at login or Use UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location—so if you’re using either of those other options, your mileage may vary—definitely do some testing! This is also as of 10.14.5 (Mojave); Apple very well may change things for 10.15 (Catalina) and beyond.

I was worried that TCC would mean we wouldn’t be able to delete local home folders for AD users without jumping through some code signing hoops, but apparently a regular old

/bin/rm -rf /Users/USERNAME

command in a root-run script seems to do just fine there, whereas it would choke on a regular (non-AD) user with an Operation not permitted TCC error

If you do need to code-sign a script, though, eventually, you may want to have a look at Code Signing Scripts for PPPC Whitelisting. It has a detailed walkthrough using Outset as an example.


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