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abrookewoodtoday at 1:30 AM1 replyview on HN

"We built a VNC + OCR system that clicks through macOS Setup Assistant automatically" - that is both awesome and annoying. I guess I assumed that Apple supported some form of unattended setup.


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frabonaccitoday at 1:50 AM

Yeah, Apple intentionally provides no unattended setup. Plus any process trying to control the UI programmatically needs explicit accessibility permissions, which defeats the purpose.

So we just click through like a human would via VNC. Version-specific but works with their security model rather than against it.