Hello everyone. For some reason the App Management permission doesn't seem to work on darwin. As far as I can tell I'm doing this correctly, but I'd like to double-check with someone more knowledgeable

When I try to activate my home-manager config I get the following error:

Activating checkAppManagementPermission
error: permission denied when trying to update apps, aborting activation
home-manager requires permission to update your apps, please accept the notification
and grant the permission for your terminal emulator in System Settings.

If you did not get a notification, you can navigate to System Settings > Privacy & Security > App Management.

I did not get any notification, so I tried to add Ghostty (~/.nix-profile/Applications/Ghostty.app) to the list of App Management apps

I can add it to the list, but when I try to switch to the new home-manager config, Ghostty is removed from that list and the error shows up once more

What do I do here?

How might I make something like this test work on darwin too?

{ pkgs }:
let
  postgresConf = pkgs.writeText "postgresql.conf" ''
    unix_socket_directories = '/tmp'
  '';

  pgSetup = ''
    CREATE USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres' CREATEDB SUPERUSER;
    CREATE DATABASE nix_phoenix_template_dev;
  '';
in
pkgs.writeShellApplication {
  name = "postgres-dev";

  runtimeInputs = with pkgs; [
    postgresql
  ];

  runtimeEnv = {
    PGDATA = ".database";
  };

  text = ''
    if [ ! -d $PGDATA ]; then
      initdb -D $PGDATA

      cat "${postgresConf}" >> $PGDATA/postgresql.conf

      postgres --single -E postgres <<< "${pgSetup}"
    fi

    exec postgres
  '';
}

I get these types of errors when building

install> 2025-11-16 16:45:42.248 UTC [70440] FATAL:  could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission denied

nix-run> exporting https://tangled.org/@weethet.bsky.social/nix-run (rev 73d7bf6b58848fb8f42e3a69816e0847f041c689) into /nix/store/m4m951648wmipxgwrgsml9gzjwfpfhm7-nix-run-73d7bf6
nix-run> Initialized empty Git repository in /nix/store/m4m951648wmipxgwrgsml9gzjwfpfhm7-nix-run-73d7bf6/.git/
nix-run> fatal: unable to access 'https://tangled.org/@weethet.bsky.social/nix-run/': Could not resolve host: tangled.org (Could not contact DNS servers)
nix-run> fatal: unable to access 'https://tangled.org/@weethet.bsky.social/nix-run/': Could not resolve host: tangled.org (Could not contact DNS servers)
nix-run> fatal: unable to access 'https://tangled.org/@weethet.bsky.social/nix-run/': Could not resolve host: tangled.org (Could not contact DNS servers)
nix-run> Unable to checkout 73d7bf6b58848fb8f42e3a69816e0847f041c689 from https://tangled.org/@weethet.bsky.social/nix-run.