Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Allow Applicatiosn from... Date: 22 May 2018 21:14:51 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.20B18D4F010D3A82700004CE72CF@news.supernews.com> <210520180920064347%nospam@nospam.invalid> <0001HW.20B37F46003DC9F170000DB1F2CF@news.supernews.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net Um4v3JnCfacEYvNir/11yQf4uZzKleC5z/RuY2NHNh+6Yo5z52 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MQryw6mVYT5lERFuWQoBG4Qdzwo= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:116563 comp.sys.mac.misc:6446 On 2018-05-22, JF Mezei wrote: > On 2018-05-22 12:20, Barry Margolin wrote: > >> Use this command in Terminal: >> >> sudo spctl --master-disable >> >> I found this by googling "high sierra allow apps from anywhere" > > I had written the post after finding out that the GUI no longer offered > it and didn't have time to start googling. > > Thanks to your pointer, I can do "man spctl" and get the current > information (googling doesn't always give current or accurate information) > > > The neat thing is that it appears one can have a secure policy, and then > enable "antwhere" apps one by one: > > To allow Frobozz.app to run on the local system: > spctl --add --label "My Stuff" /Applications/Frobozz.app > > So if you donwload something and it is blocked, you can decide to enable > that one because you trust where you got it from, while keeping doors > closed for astuff you haven't approved. That's useful to know - thank you. -- Today is Boomtime, the 69th day of Discord in the YOLD 3184 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.