# Install tccutil with Homebrew Utility to modify the macOS Accessibility Database (TCC.db). Version 1.5.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:tccutil ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install tccutil ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:tccutil - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.5.1 - **Source summary:** Utility to modify the macOS Accessibility Database (TCC.db) - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - tccutil (cli) - tccutil (alias) ## Dependencies - python@3.14 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-04 - Package-manager version: 1.5.1 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil - Upstream latest detected: v1.5.1 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## 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. ### Sources - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** tccutil - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Requirements:** macos - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [python@3.14](https://pkg.so/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [mole](https://pkg.so/brew/mole/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [lima](https://pkg.so/brew/lima/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [mas](https://pkg.so/brew/mas/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [terminal-notifier](https://pkg.so/brew/terminal-notifier/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [cliclick](https://pkg.so/brew/cliclick/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [dysk](https://pkg.so/brew/dysk/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [mactop](https://pkg.so/brew/mactop/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [blueutil](https://pkg.so/brew/blueutil/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [shallow-backup](https://pkg.so/brew/shallow-backup/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. 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