Remotely Activating Firewall

Hi all,


Is there a way to remotely activate the built-in firewall to selected Macs on ARD?


Kind Regards,


BigJava

Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 29, 2011 4:21 AM

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Jun 30, 2011 1:56 AM in response to BigJava

Hi Bigjava,


Try this with a unix command through Apple Remote Desktop:

Get the current state of the firewall:

sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf globalstate


The result will print one of these numbers;

0 = de-activated

1 = on for specific services

2 = on for essential services


For instance if you want to enable essential only, send this command via remote desktop:


sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf globalstate -int 2

Goodluck!


Jeffrey

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