Vimr: VimR unexpectedly requesting access to contacts

Created on 13 Oct 2018 · 11Comments · Source: qvacua/vimr

I'm not entirely sure why this is happening but since upgrading to MacOS Mojave (10.14), VimR is requesting access to my contacts. I can't think of a legitimate need to read my contacts?

Version: 0.24.0 (282)

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adamneilson

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Don't start vimr in your home folder -- any app that crawls your directories from home will eventually hit ~/Library and that's where the warnings are coming from, AFAIK. Like @ELLIOTTCABLE said, you can trigger this with ripgrep, etc and is not a an issue caused by VimR, but the user.

xentek on 30 May 2019

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This also happened to me. What the heck? Was it doing this before too‽

williamleuschner on 16 Oct 2018

Similar, but for me it's asking for calendar permissions.

ActionScripted on 16 Oct 2018

This also happened to me when vimr start from my home dir

numbcoder on 21 Oct 2018

This most likely has to do with the new privacy protections in macOS Mojave https://www.howtogeek.com/361707/how-macos-mojaves-privacy-protection-works/

arpitchauhan on 30 Oct 2018

Absolutely due to the new privacy protections but the point is why would VimR be attempting to access my contacts to begin with?

adamneilson on 30 Oct 2018

@adamneilson I'm sure it's just recursively listing your home-directory or something in some odd corner case.

Try running Ack or RipGrep for some common term starting at your home directory. You'll see something very similar, very quickly.

ELLIOTTCABLE on 1 Nov 2018

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Yeah, I have experience that too @ELLIOTTCABLE while using Terminal. And, I also vaguely remember other applications unexpectedly asking such permissions.

I think it'd be good if there could be a fix which could stop VimR from accessing photos, contacts etc, but I also think if your innocuous explanation is right (which I think it is), this is no big deal, rather just a minor annoyance.

arpitchauhan on 1 Nov 2018

I updated to mojave (10.14.1) from high sierra today and I don't see any of that warnings. However, it may well be that, since I did not care for macOS entitlements and such, mojave thinks that VimR somehow wants to access everything... I'll have look into macOS security system to "fix" this. It could take awhile since I currently don't have much free time...

qvacua on 2 Nov 2018

Since no one else has mentioned _sleep_: I've seen this a few times and I think it's only been when waking my (Mojave) system. "VimR.app would like to access your contacts" dialog box is waiting for me.