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V-268497

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant.

Rule ID

SV-268497r1034431_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 15 (Sequoia) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R7

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The prompt for Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant must be disabled. Organizations must apply organizationwide configuration settings. The macOS Privacy Setup services prompt guides new users through enabling their own specific privacy settings. This is not essential and, therefore, must be disabled to prevent the risk of individuals electing privacy settings with the potential to override organizationwide settings.

Check Content

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS
$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed')\
.objectForKey('SkipPrivacySetup').js
EOS

If the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the macOS system to disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.