Prevent OSX Firewall from Asking Permission to Allow Dropbox and iTunes Connections

[SteinMaster]

How do I keep OSX Firewall from asking permission to accept incoming connections for Dropbox and iTunes? I checked my Firewall permissions in Admin and they are set to allow Dropbox and iTunes. Every time I turn on my MBP, I am asked to allow incoming connections when synching with Dropbox. When I launch iTunes for the first time, it also asks me for permission. It is a pain since I have to keep entering my Admin name and password. Any advise?

Thanks

 

[r0k]

How do I keep OSX Firewall from asking permission to accept incoming connections for Dropbox and iTunes? I checked my Firewall permissions in Admin and they are set to allow Dropbox and iTunes. Every time I turn on my MBP, I am asked to allow incoming connections when synching with Dropbox. When I launch iTunes for the first time, it also asks me for permission. It is a pain since I have to keep entering my Admin name and password. Any advise?

Thanks

The firewall settings are listed in an order that I don't find to be intuitive. Unlike a stoplight which goes green, yellow, red, the firewall settings are more like green (top pick - allow all incoming connections), red (allow only essential services), yellow (allow the services you list).

The middle pick (allow only essential services) is the most restrictive. There is a short tutorial on firewall settings here. It is possible you have some services listed, but you have the middle option picked and whatever you have listed is ignored.

 

[SteinMaster]

Huh. May Firewall screen is different from yours. It does not give me the options you have. See the other screen shot for my settings. I can't figure out why this is happening. It's just annoying I have to enter my Admin and passcode every time. There is no other options for me to select to allow auto access to these apps.

 

[LPZ]

How do I keep OSX Firewall from asking permission to accept incoming connections for Dropbox and iTunes? I checked my Firewall permissions in Admin and they are set to allow Dropbox and iTunes. Every time I turn on my MBP, I am asked to allow incoming connections when synching with Dropbox. When I launch iTunes for the first time, it also asks me for permission. It is a pain since I have to keep entering my Admin name and password. Any advise?

Thanks

Please open Terminal (in Utilities) and enter

codesign -vvv /Applications/iTunes.app

You should get this:

/Applications/iTunes.app: valid on disk
/Applications/iTunes.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement

Do you?

 

[SteinMaster]

No. I got this:


codesign -vvv /applications/itunes.app
/applications/itunes.app: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
/applications/itunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesASUHelper: resource modified
/applications/itunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper: resource modified

 

[LPZ]

No. I got this:


codesign -vvv /applications/itunes.app
/applications/itunes.app: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
/applications/itunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesASUHelper: resource modified
/applications/itunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper: resource modified

Right. That's the problem, at least for iTunes. It seems that the iTunes package was incorrectly code-signed by Apple at some point. The solution is to delete iTunes from your Applications folder (this won't delete any of your music or prefs) and download a new copy. After doing so, redo the Terminal command and see if you get what I posted.

 

[SteinMaster]

Great. I will do this and see what happens. If it fixes it, I will also do same for Dropbox.

 

[SteinMaster]

Right. That's the problem, at least for iTunes. It seems that the iTunes package was incorrectly code-signed by Apple at some point. The solution is to delete iTunes from your Applications folder (this won't delete any of your music or prefs) and download a new copy. After doing so, redo the Terminal command and see if you get what I posted.

Ok. It's fixed. iTunes loads a lot faster.

/applications/itunes.app: valid on disk
/applications/itunes.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement

Next is Dropbox. Thanks for the help!!!