GateKeeper??

Not strange at all. Nevr heard of it. Figured it was a 3rd party oddball causing trouble.

Left it at that once you pointed out wat it was. What's strange?

Strange is having a feature/app that is not in the help index.

Grant

Re: Gatekeeper:

Since upgrading to Mavericks, I have been unable to open System Prefs:Network:Advanced (including editing Locations and adding a new service). The fix I found for this also fixed my Gatekeeper default issue. Gatekeeper default would not allow me to select System Prefs:Security & Privacy:General: Allow apps downloaded from Anywhere - despite the fact that it was from Scottrade's Streaming Quotes .. a site I was able to access for years prior to the Mavericks upgrade. Now I can check Anywhere ... and, yes, I know ... to be VERY careful with that selected.

The Terminal Commands referenced in this discussion cited below worked to fix both issues. The site for these commands is:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5484035?start=60&tstart=0

Ohhh, so it's the nanny that suddenly wouldn't allow GraphicConverter to install. yea, i ran into that gem.

not impressed.

Grant

What is it forst of all? Some 3rd party program? If so you installed it.....

use spotlight to search for it; look in applications, utilities.....

See if it added a preference pane that you can modify its behaviour via..

Grant

thanks.

Odd that 1) it is not found by spotlight and 2) in system help gatekeeper only brings up security and firewall settings with one reference to gatekeeper buried in the text toward the bottom.

I guess its the old firewall software.

That was too easy to remember. :-)

oh and to the OP - yes, you go to preferneces, security and privacy, and turn things on and off there.

G

Gatekeeper is not firewall software in the true sense. Gatekeeper helps protect people from accidentally installing malware by only running cryptographically signed software by default, for things downloaded from the Internet or received via email. This has SIGNIFICANT security enhancements for the average person, and is very nonintrusive.

I STRONGLY recommend leaving Gatekeeper set to the default settings (allow apps downloaded from Mac App Store and identified developers). This is secure, and if you REALLY want to run an application that is not signed, you can control-click it in the Finder and tell it to open. The default to allow all applications will essentially disable GateKeeper's protections but this is really a bad idea.

The answer to how to turn it off though is to go to the Security and Privacy preference pane and authenticate and then set "Allow apps downloaded from" to "anywhere." But if you don't even know what GateKeeper is this is a horrible, horrible idea. GateKeeper removes like 95% of all attack vectors from your computer and doesn't slow down anything at all.

Grant Lenahan wrote:

Ohhh, so it's the nanny that suddenly wouldn't allow GraphicConverter to install. yea, i ran into that gem.

not impressed.

Grant

Yes, thus the settings included that can be changed to istall such a program. Pretty widely advertised since Lion. I can't believe you have never heard of it. And yet try to aid someone else in understanding it.

Strange.

Cheers

pete

William Lloyd wrote:

If there were a newer, signed version of GraphicConverter it would install without issue.

And again, you could just control-double-click and install without incident.

No, you can just Control-click to get the Open command on the context menu. (Or right-click with better mice) Control-double-click doesn't do anything.

I agree that the best way to use OS X Gatekeeper is to leave it turned on, because it's so easy to bypass with the context menu for those occasional times when you need to override it for some non-compliant software. It is less safe to disable Gatekeeper entirely.

Allan-

When I open System Prefs/Security & Privacy/General and unlock, it will not allow me to check Anywhere. I have in the past, always been able to open the Scottrade Streaming Quotes app from Scottrade. Not so since Mavericks. Sometimes, I can right-click and open, sometimes I am timed out on the website while trying. I have tried dragging and dropping the app into the Applications Folder, Getting Info, and giving all permissions. I have tried a Terminal Command (mentioned by Linc Davis) "sudo cp /var/db/.SystemPolicy-default /var/db/SystemPolicy" to reset settings and rebooting. Nothing works. I wish to reset Gatekeeper to Any, closely monitor what I open, and be allowed to open what I know to be safe. How can I do that when 'All" is not available? When I check it, it just goes back to default- Mac App Store and identified developers. What is preventing that option from being available?

Go to System Preferences, then Security&Privacy, click the lock in the lower left corner if it is locked and enter the Admin password to open the lock.

Then Allow apps downloaded from: and check the one that serves you best. You can turn Gatekeeper off and back on freely.

Part of the problem was the way it was functioning. I had no lock to unlock, I know to do that. The Pref and/or it's setting was faulty. I'd toggle it and it would immediately return to Mac App Store and identified developers. Even when I'd select allow this one, the next time, it wouldn't.

Grant, Gatekeeper is part of the last three OSXs.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Pete

Why do you think you need to turn off GateKeeper?

Allan

If there were a newer, signed version of GraphicConverter it would install without issue.

And again, you could just control-double-click and install without incident.

It's just doing its job.