Macos – Enable Minecraft with Parental Controls

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My kids (somehow) talked me into installing Minecraft on my iMac. I have separate accounts for them with the Parental Controls feature enabled for each account. When they start up Minecraft on their account it prompts for admin access as expected. If I enter my username/password and click 'Allow Always' the dialog goes away for a couple of seconds then pops back up. If I click 'Allow Once' the games starts up and they can play.

How can I allow them to always play without requiring me to come over and enter my info?

Best Answer

I had a similar issue and this thread on Ask Different.se helped me to solve it. Instead of creating a new script named MyMinecraft as one answer suggested I modified the Java loader.

First I backed up the JavaApplicationStub file. Then I created a new script with that same name and edited the contents to be:

#!/bin/bash
java -jar -Xms512m -Xmx1024m /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/Resources/Java/MinecraftLauncher.jar

Then made that file executable for all users:

chmod a+x JavaApplicationStub

This allowed Minecraft to load for me without the prompt.

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