Tag: santa
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Unloading Santa’s system extension when uninstalling using Munki
What the problem is System extensions in place of kernel extensions For macOS 10.15+, Apple has deprecated kernel extensions in favor of system extensions, but system extensions can’t be unloaded silently by script. If you try to unload Santa’s system extension using the command: systemextensionsctl uninstall EQHXZ8M8AV com.google.santa.daemon you’ll get this: At this time, this…
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Using Santa to block macOS upgrades
In the past, I’d used the fake installer approach to stop users from upgrading to the newest macOS version. But with macOS 10.14 (Mojave), I started blocking using Santa (see Using Santa to block an .app for more details on general Santa use). It’s likely this Santa-blocking approach also works for High Sierra and Sierra…
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Parental Controls keeps blocking allowed apps
If macOS Parental Controls keep blocking allowed apps (both allowed through the checklist in System Preferences and through manually approving via password), deleting the account and recreating it may not be enough to fix the glitch. Instead, try recreating an account with a new name. I’ve found Santa to block things more reliably (or not…
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BlacklistRegex and WhitelistRegex on Santa
Acknowledgements Thanks once again to @bur on the Mac Admins Slack for the info I’m documenting here. BlacklistRegex and WhitelistRegex In a previous blog entry, I talked about using Santa to block apps by certificate (and I briefly mentioned blocking by binary). You can also block by path using regular expressions. Binary takes precedence over…
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Using Santa to block an .app
Acknowledgements Special shoutout to @bur on the Mac Admins Slack for help with some command-line syntax. Santa can be complicated, but doesn’t need to be Google has a project on GitHub called Santa, which is quite powerful and complicated. As the project’s readme says, though: Documentation: This is currently limited.. I just wanted to do…