Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X
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Msg-id CA+TgmobayFXfmu9tvS+q6fUe0eon=nQm1DMwxAkYtbcA9+bwtQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If you do any Postgres development on OS X, you've probably gotten
> seriously annoyed by the way that, every single time you reinstall the
> postmaster executable, you get a dialog box asking whether you'd like
> to allow it to accept incoming network connections.  (At least, you
> do unless you disable the OS firewall, which is not a great idea.)
> It's particularly awful to run "make check-world" in this environment,
> because you get a pop-up for each test install.

Ugh.  This must be new in Mavericks, because I don't get any such
behavior on 10.8.5.

What an awful, awful behavior.

-- 
Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company



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