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Yeah, this is not true. There is a separate setting which controls a pop-up confirming whether or not you want to run an app that you downloaded, the first time
by chrisrhoden 14y ago
Yeah, this is not true. There is a separate setting which controls a pop-up confirming whether or not you want to run an app that you downloaded, the first time you attempt to run it. The setting referred to here actually BLOCKS the running of new non-app-store (or, by default, non-signed) applications.
http://imgur.com/7bduA http://imgur.com/7bduA
Apparently, you can alt-click and select open, but my gut tells me that this was an oversight and will not last long. This feature was touted as a potential way to protect children, and if overriding it doesn't even require entering a password it fails at that pretty badly.
- ralfd 14y agoControl-Click. I don't think it is an oversight, because "Manual Override" is touted officially as a feature: http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#gatekeeper http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#gatekeeper And even explicitly mentioned in a system dialogue: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gatekeeper-anywhere-warning.png http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gateke... I am still not on Mountain Lion, so I don't know if you need to enter a password (which children shouldn't have) or right clicking is enough?
- petsos 14y agoYour gut is wrong: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/15/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/15/
- thoughtsimple 14y agoYou can always just execute the command: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine myTrojan.app Now you can run the application no matter what the Gatekeeper setting is set to. No need to be paranoid. Gatekeeper isn't meant to lock down the Mac against yourself. It is a security feature only.