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)
Bump, does anyone know a way?
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3 replies
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
Hello Jeffrey Epping,
Thank you so much. It worked like a charm.
Bless you good sir.
BigJava
Remotely Activating Firewall