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Install tccutil with Homebrew

Utility to modify the macOS Accessibility Database (TCC.db). Version 1.5.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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macOS

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brew install tccutil

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overview

Package summary

Utility to modify the macOS Accessibility Database (TCC.db)

Commands and aliases

  • tccutil

history

Project history and usage

tccutil.py is a macOS command-line utility for manipulating the Transparency, Consent, and Control database used for privacy and Accessibility permissions.

Project history

The upstream README frames the tool as a response to Apple's built-in /usr/bin/tccutil, which only supports resetting the database. Jacob Salmela's version was created to add command-line operations such as listing, inserting, removing, enabling, and disabling entries in TCC.db.

The GitHub repository was created in 2014, and later README text documents both system-wide and per-user TCC database handling, plus the practical constraint that disabling SIP may be required for direct database modification.

Adoption history

Its package-manager interest comes from being a small macOS administration tool that Homebrew can place earlier in PATH than Apple's similarly named utility, giving administrators a more scriptable interface for permission resets and Accessibility database edits.

How it is used

Common usage is macOS-only and administrative: list TCC database entries, add or remove bundle IDs and paths, enable or disable Accessibility access, or delegate reset operations to Apple's native tccutil.

Why package nerds care

Package nerds care because it represents a familiar Homebrew pattern: wrapping a narrow, platform-specific system gap in a tiny CLI that can be installed, versioned, audited, and scripted instead of copied around as an ad hoc admin script.

Timeline

  • 2014: GitHub repository for jacobsalmela/tccutil created.
  • 2020: tccutil.py copyright notice in the source identifies active project authorship.
  • 2025: README documents global and per-user TCC database handling.

Related projects

  • Apple /usr/bin/tccutil is the native reset-only utility that this project wraps and extends.
  • The README names Privacy Manager Services, tccmanager.py, go-tccutil, tccplus, and DocSystem/tccutil as related approaches.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:database

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
tccutilcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-04
manager version1.5.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.5.1

https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:tccutil
Version1.5.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tccutil
Homepagehttps://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil
Repositoryhttps://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil/archive/refs/tags/v1.5.1.tar.gz
Dependenciespython@3.14
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nametccutil
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Requirements
  • macos
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

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