Comments on: Command Line ALF on Mac OS X

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:54:42 +0000

PS – I applaud Blizzard for having been ahead of the curve and signing their stuff prior to Apple implementing ALF… Random (kinda) sidenote.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:53:59 +0000

Hey, sorry for the delay. WoW and Diablo are signed. Thus when you try to sign them you break the in-application aspect of the signature. ALF should already have an exception for those apps specifically though as that bug was closed awhile back. Let me know if you don’t have a workaround and I can refile.

By: kyue

kyue — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:15:04 +0000

Just to provide a bit of closure. After playing around with it some more. These “GetSignException” messages are for applications that are signed and not found on my Mac. These creators are from World of Warcraft, Diablo2, etc, which are irrelevant to what I am trying to do. I posted the question on Apple Discussions Forum. Someone said that this may be because this is no longer supported, therefore, does not work anymore.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10900266�

By: kyue

kyue — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:54:15 +0000

That thought did cross my mind. I’m not sure if my app is signed. Is this where I use \-s file\ to sign it? This is what I tried and it killed socketfilterfw

kyue:/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall> sudo ./socketfilterfw -s ~/[my binary path]\nGetSignException: creator ‘BNUp’
GetSignException: creator ‘BNu2′
GetSignException: creator ‘SWar’
GetSignException: creator ‘StCm’
GetSignException: creator ‘Dbl2′
GetSignException: creator ‘PJ03′
GetSignException: creator ‘PJ07′
GetSignException: creator ‘FP98′
Killed

By: admin

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:21:50 +0000

I see that happen when the app isn’t signed before trying to add it to the trusted apps. Is the app signed?

By: kyue

kyue — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:52:44 +0000

Hello,

I am trying to use the command outlined in this article to add a trusted site to the ALF, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I am pointing to the binary file, but whenever I execute the command to add, it \hangs\ there. This is my output:

kyue:/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall> sudo ./socketfilterfw -t \~/[my binary path]\
adding ~/[my binary path] to the list of trusted applications
GetSignException: creator ‘BNUp’
GetSignException: creator ‘BNu2′
GetSignException: creator ‘SWar’
GetSignException: creator ‘StCm’
GetSignException: creator ‘Dbl2′
GetSignException: creator ‘PJ03′
GetSignException: creator ‘PJ07′
GetSignException: creator ‘FP98′

And then it sits there for quite a while, with no further output. Is there a reason for it? Should it be taking over 5 minutes for it to process? I tried restarting my computer, thinking it may help, but it didn’t.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

Kat