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ziwei-yang / MacOS Screen sharing on localhost only.md
Created August 2, 2022 05:27 — forked from mhofman/MacOS Screen sharing on localhost only.md
MacOS ScreenSharing on localhost only

Force recent MacOS to listen for screen sharing on localhost only, keeping SIP on

All the following has been validated on MacOS Mojave 10.14.6

Problems

While there is a command line preference to accept only local VNC connections, that setting still doesn't prevent the daemon from listening to the wildcard address, and advertise the service on Bonjour. I haven't actually tried to see if it restricted anything in modern versions of the operating system, but here it is for reference:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteManagement.plist VNCOnlyLocalConnections -bool yes
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ziwei-yang / AlbumRatingReset.scpt
Last active March 15, 2017 11:44 — forked from dhiraj/AlbumRatingReset.scpt
This AppleScript may allow you to remove or set the album rating on one or more of your tracks to a value you decide. If you use Smart Playlists based on the track rating field, this may be *the* AppleScript you were looking for. If not, then consider moving on, this is probably not what you were looking for. I've modified the script in this fil…
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"Album Rating Reset" for iTunes
written by Doug Adams
dougadams@mac.com
v1.0 sept 6 2007
-- initial release
v2.0 mar 6 2013
updated by Dhiraj Gupta (http://www.dhirajgupta.com)