Low Profile

A Mac utility to help inspect Apple Configuration Profile payloads:

• Want to see what is inside the Configuration Profiles that are installed on your Mac?
• Curious to know what a Configuration Profile will enforce / change on a device before actually installing one?
• Tired of having to manually un-sign Configuration Profiles, only to have to flex your XML parsing skills to find out what is inside?
• Maybe you just want to qualify that your MDM vendor is creating Configuration Profiles the way you expect?

If the answer is yes to any of the above, then Low Profile is the app for you!

Check out #low-profile on the Mac Admins Slack to discuss all things Low Profile!

Features

• Displays details for all Apple supported payloads:

  • Description + Payload Type

  • Supported Platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS)

  • Payload-specific information (ie. Identifier, UUID, Display Name, Organisation, etc.)

  • Payload Availability

  • Example Property List

  • Properties:

    • Payload Properties (supported and in the payload)
    • Available Properties (supported and not in the payload)
    • Unknown Properties (unknown and in the payload)

    

• Displays Property List keys for all payloads:

  

• Displays nested payloads for Managed Preferences:

  

• Displays details for custom 3rd-party payloads:

  • Including certificate data
  • Including custom arrays and dictionaries

  

• Displays certificate information for signed Configuration Profiles:

  

• Detect issues with deprecated and duplicated property keys:

  

Build Requirements

• Swift 5.10
• Runs on macOS Ventura 13 and later.

Download

• Grab the latest version of Low Profile from the releases page.
• Alternatively, install via Homebrew by running brew install low-profile
• Note: Version 4.0 requires macOS Ventura 13 or later.
  • If you need to run Low Profile on an older operating system you can still use version 3.0.1.

Credits / Thank You

• Project created and maintained by Nindi Gill (ninxsoft).
• Documentation and icons sourced from here and here.
• Filippo Maguolo (filom) for AS1NDecoder, used in reading certificate data.
• J.P. Illanes (raspu) for Highlightr, used to syntax highlight property lists.
• The Sparkle Project (sparkle-project) for Sparkle, used to auto update Low Profile.
• JP Simard (jpsim) for Yams, used to import YAML.
• Marcus Ransom (@marcusransom) for the awesome app name.
• James Smith (smithjw) for the shiny new app icon.

License

Copyright © 2024 Nindi Gill

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.