"operation not permitted"

"operation not permitted"

[TJ Luoma]

I just did a clean install of macOS 13 (High Sierra) and have
encountered a few zsh shell scripts which say "operation not
permitted" when I try to run them

      zsh: operation not permitted: register-fluid.sh

but if I do this

     zsh =register-fluid.sh

then it works fine.

The shell script is in my $PATH and is executable. It's not doing
anything fancy. In fact I can include it here.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f
# Purpose:
#
# From:     Timothy J. Luoma
# Mail:     luomat at gmail dot com
# Date:     2019-09-04

NAME="$0:t:r"

if [[ -e "$HOME/.path" ]]
then
     source "$HOME/.path"
else
     PATH='/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin'
fi

TARGET="${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Fluid/TimothyLuoma.fluid2license"

if [[ -e "$TARGET" ]]
then
     echo "$NAME: '$TARGET' already exists."
     exit 0
fi

[[ ! -d "$TARGET:h" ]] && mkdir -p "$TARGET:h"

cp -vn "$HOME/.config/licenses/fluid/TimothyLuoma.fluid2license" "$TARGET"

exit 0
#EOF

Any ideas why I'm getting "operation not permitted" for this?

Thanks!

Tj

Re: "operation not permitted"

[Peter Stephenson]

On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 06:42 -0400, TJ Luoma wrote:
> I just did a clean install of macOS 13 (High Sierra) and have
> encountered a few zsh shell scripts which say "operation not
> permitted" when I try to run them
> 
>       zsh: operation not permitted: register-fluid.sh
> 
> but if I do this
> 
>      zsh =register-fluid.sh
> 
> then it works fine.

What do

which register-fluid.sh

and

ls -l $(which register-fluid.sh)

say?

pws

Re: "operation not permitted"

[TJ Luoma]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 6:58 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> What do
>
> which register-fluid.sh
>
> and
>
> ls -l $(which register-fluid.sh)
>
> say?

/usr/local/scripts/register-fluid.sh

and

-rwxr-xr-x 1 luomat wheel 607 Sep  4 06:45 /usr/local/scripts/register-fluid.sh

respectively

PATH is /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/di:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/luomat/.iterm2
in case that matters.

Re: "operation not permitted"

[TJ Luoma]

Here's a weird thing:

I have recently started using

#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f

at the top of my shell scripts, so they will use /usr/local/bin/zsh if
installed or /bin/zsh if not.

If I change that to

#!/bin/zsh -f

then the script will not give the "operation not permitted" error.

And once I run it that way, I can change it back to

#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f

and it will work again.

I don't understand this at all, but maybe someone else might?

Re: "operation not permitted"

[TJ Luoma]

It appears that this may have something to do with macOS's
"Quarantine" system and be related to the fact that these scripts were
"downloaded" from another Mac. I'm still trying to figure out exactly
what was the cause but the fix seems to be running this:

find /path/to/file/ -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} 2> /dev/null \;

on any "offending" scripts.

Re: "operation not permitted"

[Bart Schaefer]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 3:44 AM TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just did a clean install of macOS 13 (High Sierra) and have
> encountered a few zsh shell scripts which say "operation not
> permitted" when I try to run them
>
>       zsh: operation not permitted: register-fluid.sh

Either /usr/bin/env is having a problem, or something in the script is.

What happens if you run "/usr/bin/env zsh" from the command line?

Next would be to try putting "set -x" (or equivalently "setopt
xtrace") at the top of the file, so you can see it running and
identify the line with the problem.