Background Item Should Say iCanHazShortcut

[karthicraghupathi]

The background item for iCanHazShortcut says Interservice LTD. Liability Co.. For the longest time, I thought my machine was compromised because I couldn't find anything related to this item.

Even theinfo.deseven.icanhazshortcut.plist doesn't list this name:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<false/>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>info.deseven.icanhazshortcut</string>
	<key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
	<string>Aqua</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/usr/bin/open</string>
		<string>/Applications/iCanHazShortcut.app</string>
	</array>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I looked at the source code in the repo and I couldn't find this string.

Where does Interservice LTD. Liability Co. come from? Can it be changed to list iCanHazShortcut which is the proper name of the application?

[deseven]

This is the company that listed in the certificate used to sign the app.
Where do you see the entry shown on the screenshot?

[karthicraghupathi]

Thanks for the prompt response. I see it in System Settings -> General -> Login Items. Look under the "Allow in the Background" section.

[deseven]

I'm still on Monterey and it looks like that to me:

Not sure what was changed in Ventura and why it shows certificate details for you, but I'll check when I update.

[karthicraghupathi]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

To be clear, if I manually add the application under the "Open at Login" section, the name displays correctly.

However, if I select "Start on login" in iCanHazShortcut's Preferences:

This item gets added to the "Allow in the Background" section under the "Interservice LTD. Liability Company Co." name.

[deseven]

Ok, understood. I'm seeing there "Canonical Group Limited" as well, which also must be a company name from the certificate. Pretty strange...

You can see that it's indeed a part of the signature by running
codesign -dv --verbose=2 '/Applications/iCanHazShortcut.app'

In any case, newer version won't use this older mechanism of starting at login, it will use the new one (just like if you add it manually).

[karthicraghupathi]

Thanks again for showing where the name comes from. It certainly put my mind at ease finding out that it was related to a software I installed.

Great software BTW. It's very convenient. And I look forward to the new version.