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How To Enable / Disable Read&Write For Mac Prompts

You can bypass security requests with a plist config file which will stop the Read&Write from popping up the Accessibility and Automation setting dialogs needed for Read&Write. These prompts can be bypassed by network admins by pushing out a plist file called RWSettings.plist to the Users/Shared/Read&Write folder.  The online part of Check It can also be disabled site wide using this file. The plist file details are shown below.

Bypassing the security popups will disable certain features, if you want users to be able to use all features of Read&Write, you should push out a mobileconfig file via MDM instead to set these security options for your users (which will also stop these prompts from appearing). We have this documented in our Pre-Configuring Mac For Read&Write Use In A Site Environment article.

Accessibility Prompt

To bypass the Security Accessibility Popup - bypassing this will disable the prediction feature and mean that the check it feature will work by selection only.

Use the key "AccessibilityPrompt" with value "NO"

Automation Prompt

To bypass the Automation Popup - bypassing this will stop Read&Write communicating with other applications.

Use the key "AutomationPrompt" with value "NO"

Offline Check it

To bypass the Online Checkit feature and use offline only

Use the key "CheckitOffline" with value "YES"

Command line example

 To create the plist file use the Terminal application and the following commands:

defaults write Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist AccessibilityPrompt -bool NO
defaults write Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist AutomationPrompt -bool NO
defaults write Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist CheckitOffline -bool YES

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