[Blink] Mac: Firewall keeps asking authorization every times Blink opens

Adrian Georgescu ag at ag-projects.com
Fri Dec 17 20:24:40 CET 2010


This problem seem to manifest itself for iTunes itself for some people:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11697510

Adrian

On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Yann Combarnous wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the tip, but did not work for me. Have the same issue on 4 computers (all Snow Leopard).
> Couldn't this be the separate VNC process that is launched by Blink?
> 
> Yann
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Dan Pascu <dan at ag-projects.com> wrote:
> We do not know what causes this. It only seems to happen to some people, not everybody.
> 
> Try this workaround:
> 
> When asked, deny blink. Then go to the firewall preferences and manually switch blink from denied to allowed. Somebody reported this solved the issue.
> 
> 
> On 16 Dec 2010, at 12:42, Yann Combarnous wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Snow Leopard, I have my Firewall set to only allow white-listed apps to go out.
> 
> Generally, once a new app is launched, SL requires an authorization and adds the app to the white list. Then on subsequent runs, authorization is never requested again.
> But with Blink, I always get the authorization request every time I launch it, any idea why?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yann
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