On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Keith Makan <k3170ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > According the to official documentation the pm permissions command is only > for listing all known permissions [1] or optionally all the permissions in a > given logical group. > But if you want to list the permissions granted to a specific application > the most accurate way to do this would be to consult the > /data/system/packages.xml on your android device or on an emulator running > the application---you may or may not know that---it lists the permissions, Ah, thank you very much. I had looked at packages.list, but I did not look for packages.xml.
> public keys and of all the applications installed on a device.To make this > simpler you may want to grep or search for the applications name in the > file, for example: > > the simplest way would be to do this on an emulated or "android virtual > device", it avoids the need to root the device, > anyway here's what you could try doing: > > bash$adb pull /data/system/packages.xml > bash$cat packages.xml | grep -n "package\ name=\"[package name]" > (hopefully I'm escaping my quotes properly here) > > or you can search for all the permission names associated to your > application if they are unique enough, for instance with a certain prefix, > > bash$cat packages.xml | grep "name=\"my.package.name.SOME_PERMISSION" > > Point being, give the /data/system/packages.xml a look ;) Perfect, thanks. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-security-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-security-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
