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

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.

@MitchStr2 I followed the code you put above and got exactly the same message

"This operation is no longer supported. Please see the man page for more information."

but when I went back into Privacy and Security the "anywhere" option was gone.

Seems like the message is wrong in terminal.

Just want to say thank you to bwan1011! Used the directions in the top ranking reply where he figured out the order of operations and it worked great for me.

Yes we all understand this is less secure and that yes developers should be signing their stuff. Some of us have to open "programs" that aren't signed though (an Oracle EBS java applet that is generated when you click a link on a web page for example) and it gets REALLY annoying having to click multiple dialogs and going to system settings multiple times a day to open them. I would be even better if Apple could just let us exempt a folder from gatekeeper or file type but whatever.

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?

Dario Buttazzo wrote:

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?

What you are describing is something completely different. See Gatekeeper and code signing | Apple Developer Forums

We are in the process of replacing all our Macs with Linux / Windows due to this draconian control. We should not need to pay Apple each year to write apps for internal use on OUR computers. We also can't then just leave the security disabled so the solution? We were told to ban Macs from the workplace on principle, just not worth the hassle.

sadly my Allow Applications from drop down does not have "Anywhere". Any ideas why? Anyone. Please God

ToddToddRoy wrote:

sadly my Allow Applications from drop down does not have "Anywhere". Any ideas why? Anyone. Please God

You don't want that. As mentioned earlier, it's a huge security hole.

This is just ridiculous, it even prevents me from opening a json file from finder

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.

Puedo confirmar que el comando sudo spctl --master-disable funciona para habilitar de cualquier sitio saludos

etresoft wrote:

You don't want that. As mentioned earlier, it's a huge security hole.

What I want is not be told what I can/cannot run.

Thanks for this. Why is it not enable (the option) in the first place.

Just wanted to say "thank you!"

Created a community account just for you — you're awesome bwan1011!!

Thank you!