Enable Minecraft with Parental Controls

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

You might want to manually approve the java runtime, and minecraft by going into the preferences and adding it to the list. I'm not sure if the JRE can be individually approved though, but you can always try.