MacOS Sequoia -- "Allow Apps from Anywhere" (or GateKeeper) has been modified..

This. Apple please do better, I beg you.

That sounds like a problem with Homebrew.

Apple doesn't take buggy 3rd party software into consideration when it makes changes to the operating system.

At this point, I'm just not sure what you are asking. As far as I can tell, you've definitively "solved the problem". You've disabled your system security so you can run Homebrew.

bwan1011 wrote:

It's MacOS 15 that is limiting me from running NOT buggy software like rar, unrar, etc.

Odd that you didn't include homebrew in the list of "NOT buggy software."

Just build them like any other unix software.

So now I must navigate to System Settings to allow a single app/terminal executable to run everytime.

You should only have to do it once.

I'll give y'all a far easier way round all this nonsense of typing in commands in terminal and all that nonsense, open privacy and security, in the search box type "open download" or open. It will pop up gatekeeper, click it, then under security you have the option to open and run your file from allow applicationsfrom anywhere. Once done, disable it if youre worried about security! Simples

ukdesigner wrote:

it's an app called Sync which is like a Dropbox type software.

At least Dropbox was recently updated so it stores its files to ~/Library/CloudStorage as Sequoia now expects. Dropbox is listed in Privacy & Security > Full disk access but that setting is inactive in my setup.

So maybe your Sync app is not fully compatible with Sequoia?

jamesmcsparron wrote:

Here's that script I promised. Hope it works. Just paste it into your "Script Editor" and hit the play button.

For anyone randomly trying whatever they see posted on the internet, this can't possibly work. 😄

enosch wrote:

you find it on GitHub alienator88 Sentinel

It doesn't work! See https://github.com/alienator88/Sentinel/issues/13

You still have to manually disable Gatekeeper in System Settings.

Why download some app from the internet when it literally does nothing more than the Terminal command mentioned in the original post.

Unfortunately this is incorrect. Gatekeeper in fact prevents me from opening code I wrote, and the problem is not elsewhere. For every new terminal executable, I need to open Settings and allow that single app, and then enter my password. For someone that writes code regularly this is unsustainable. I agree that disabling security settings is not a good idea, and in fact I'm reluctant to do it. But is there any other way to not having to do my job literally with System Settings open all the time? Or, is there a way to make it recognize my own code as safe?

This question was answered on page 1 from bwan1011. Tested it myself, worked a treat.

So, I figured it out how to allow apps from anywhere. But learned its the order of operations on how to enable this option has changed. @etresoft was correct and you can still enable the setting, but you must do the following.

Follow the order exactly:

1. Open up System Settings
2. In System Settings, navigate to "Privacy & Security". Leave Window Open in the Background
3. Open up Terminal (as separate window). DO NOT CLOSE System Settings
4. In Terminal, run "sudo spctl --master-disable" --> Type Password --> Click Enter
5. In System Settings, navigate out of "Privacy & Security" Page (For Example -- Click on "Lockscreen"), then navigate back to "Privacy & Security"
6. In System Settings --> Privacy & Security Page --> Scroll Down to bottom --> Select "Allow Application From" --> Select "Anywhere" (the option will now appear) --> Type Password

I have no issues opening a .json file.

What is the default app you have set for opening a json file? Maybe it is that app that is quarantined.

@etresoft "But if you're building your own apps, then none of this applies - at all. Gatekeeper is not involved in any way."

Uhhh... Not true. I wouldn't be on this thread if it were.

it's an app called Sync which is like a Dropbox type software. And I tried the above and no it's not quarantined. Actually I can install the app but there is a feature called CloudFiles which allows me to choose what files I sync/store on my hard drive locally and what's cloud based files. That's the part that won't let me activate now.

When I do this and I go to the security settings the app name doesn't show up in the allow section so for some reason I can't activate this part. I have thrown it back to Sync themselves but they are having a hard time for some reason in knowing what to do. Super weird because it's worked for years and then when I had to do a new OS install and installed the latest version it all went very wrong. Then I downgraded to a previous version and it got worse!!

jimfromgowanda wrote:

MacOS is designed by Apple, and is therefore essentially free of bugs

Ha! Would that that were so...