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This is probably more of interest for developers; finding out what entitlements an application has.
With recent security changes, Apple decided to implement so called entitlements - telling what the application can and cannot do.
Sometimes this can be quite interesting to learn about used entitlements when developing your own application.
So how do we get a list of entitlements?
In Terminal:
codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/MyApp.app
So for Disk Utility this would be:
codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/Utilities/Disk\ Utility.app/
The output will look something like this:
Executable=/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility
??qqA<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>com.apple.private.CoreAuthentication.SPI</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.private.storagekitd.destructive</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Enjoy ... (this should work with every signed application with entitlements assigned to it)
