I’m a newbie at mac osx development. I would like to know if there’s any way to override the mac desktop security settings to allow an application – which is not registered in the Mac App Store, to be installed?
The setting should come from the app that I’m trying to install. That means, whenever I install the app to any mac computer, regardless of its security settings as the following,
Allow applications downloaded from:
- Mac App Store
- Mac App Store and identified developers
- Anywhere
The app should set the settings to Anywhere, allowing it to be installed.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
This is not possible. The existence of that setting is intended to protect users from malicious executables. If there were a way for any arbitrary executable to override that setting, what protection would it offer? Malicious executables would simply change the setting to “Anywhere” like you suggest, bypassing the security features of Mac OS X.