Support for Mojave and app access to calendar

[magicdude4eva]

Mojave introduces stricter privacy controls and icalBuddy sigterms when being used on iTerm2.

To reproduce:

1. Install iTerm2 and make it default terminal
2. brew install ical-buddy
3. /usr/local/bin/icalBuddy calendars

Result:

/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy calendars
[1]    2038 abort      /usr/local/bin/icalBuddy calendars

On regular Terminal the above works. Not sure if iTerm2 requires some specific handling to support this. I logged iTerm2 issue as well.

[gnachman]

iTerm2 author here: I'm at a loss—the terminal emulator shouldn't have any effect on this. Do you have any idea what might be going on?

[gnachman]

Ah, after more investigation I see what's going on—the terminal needs to provide reason strings for every possible permission. Sigh. I'll take this one :)

[magicdude4eva]

Thanks @gnachman - could you perhaps post an update here once this is fixed in iTerm2?

[gnachman]

Is fixed in 3.2.1 and nightly build.

[magicdude4eva]

@gnachman I am running 3.2.2b1 and I can't get it to work. It does work in Terminal and here I notice that I have Terminal granted permission for both Calendars and Reminders.

Not sure how to debug this.

[gnachman]

Do you get a window saying "iTerm2" would like to access your calendar? If not you need to go to System Prefs > Security & Privacy, pick Calendars on the left, and then make sure iTerm2 is enabled on the right.

[magicdude4eva]

iTerm is there, but Reminders did never prompt:

I did a full uninstall/reinstall of iTerm2 and icalBuddy. icalBuddy works in the stock-terminal app.

[magicdude4eva]

I think I found one issue with iTerm2: I reset all Calendar and Reminders access via:

tccutil reset Calendar
tccutil reset Reminders

After a reboot, starting iTerm2 and then doing a icalBuddy calendars I get prompted for Calendar access and this works:

In comparison, "Terminal" prompts for both "Calendars" and "Reminders":

icalBuddy works under Terminal, but not iTerm2:

[gnachman]

Are you on 3.2.2? I added a usage description for calendars and after doing tccutil reset Calendar; icalBuddy calendars I get:

[magicdude4eva]

I am on 3.2.2beta3. I do get the prompt for Calendars:

I think that iTerm2 should also prompt for Reminders though.

After allowing icalBuddy, when using icalBuddy calendars, I get no output:

Doing the same on Terminal, icalBuddy shows them:

I am using the same shell (zsh) on both iTerm2 and Terminal, so I am not quite sure what else could be different:

brew install zsh
sudo sh -c "echo $(which zsh) >> /etc/shells"
chsh -s $(which zsh)

[gnachman]

I added all the prompts I could find. Calendars, reminders, camera, location, etc.

[magicdude4eva]

Thanks @gnachman - I think you have done enough. It does not look like @ali-rantakari is monitoring issues and since last release was in 2014, I doubt we will be able to further troubleshoot or fix.

It is just quite strange that the stock-terminal app works, but iTerm2 does not. I don't have the time to fork the iCalBuddy project and debug it.

Thanks for all your help....

[bradhowes]

FWIW, running iTerm2 3.2.6beta4 and when I ran icalBuddy I received two prompts, one for calendar access and one for reminders.