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0 pointsjoosters7y ago0 comments

Right-click on a (non-signed) program you want to run, and select 'Open'. Now MacOS will ask if you want to run this software or not, and it can remember this decision so you can just run it as normal in the future.

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fauigerzigerk7y ago· 2 in thread

I know. I've done that many times. But what the WireGuard guys are saying sounds like it's something very different:

"Because it uses these deep integration APIs, we're only allowed to distribute the application using the macOS App Store (whose rejections, appeals, and eventual acceptance made for quite the stressful saga over the last week and a half)"

akvadrako7y ago

That's quite interesting - it's the first I've seen of a real world app being limited in this way and it is worrisome. I suspect if you disabled System Integrity Protection is would work, but not sure.

On iOS they've always been APIs like this - they only work via Apple approval and not dev or enterprise signatures.

moduspwnens147y ago

I'm an iOS/Mac dev that's released a VPN app on both app stores.

The limiting factor is that the "Network Extension" framework is the way these apps work as VPNs, and currently Mac App Store distribution is the only supported method if you're using that framework (see #8) [1].

[1] https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/67613

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