Preventing macOS firewall modal dialog

[bsergean]

Hi there,

When I create a client object in a unittest context (which needs to run headless) I would like to avoid this modal dialog that display: Do you want the application “main” to accept incoming network connections?.

I am trying to set the ListHost to only localhost, but this isn't enough. (when I try to return 127.0.0.1 things does not work).

clientConfig.ListenHost = func(string) string { return "localhost" }

Does someone has any clue about this, or uses macOS ?

[anacrolix]

I develop on MacOS, I haven't seen this. Do you have firewall enabled?

[bsergean]

Yes, my Mac is my office / company one, and they probably have the ’secure’ default settings, where I believe that binding anything out of 0.0.0.0 kicks in the warning.

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On Jul 29, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Matt Joiner ***@***.***> wrote: I develop on MacOS, I haven't seen this. Do you have firewall enabled? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#539 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AC2O6ULXZQN5F635OO5XTFLT2CCJLANCNFSM5BEP3OAQ>.

[bsergean]

It isn’t as bad as I thought actually. If I compile my binary (go build …), and use the compiled binary name which stays stable, as opposed to using go run which will create a different unique/tmp binary name each time, the macOS firewall will remember that my binary is ok to run, after I check ‘Allow’ when the modal dialog pop up. So on the next run the modal dialog does not show up.

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On Jul 29, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Matt Joiner ***@***.***> wrote: I develop on MacOS, I haven't seen this. Do you have firewall enabled? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#539 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AC2O6ULXZQN5F635OO5XTFLT2CCJLANCNFSM5BEP3OAQ>.

[anacrolix]

Ok thanks for the follow-up. I expect this might occur for any Go programs that use the network?