How can I permanently allow a firewall rule in OS X Mountain Lion?

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Since upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion, every time I restart my computer I am alerted

Do you want the application "Growl.app" to accept incoming network connections?

Even though I click "Allow" this message continues to plague me upon restart.

Silva says use codesign -vvv to verify the application is signed. It verifies:

$ codesign -vvv /Applications/Growl.app
/Applications/Growl.app: valid on disk
/Applications/Growl.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement

It also seems that reinstalling the program does not help. How can I get rid of this message?

Everett · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-17 19:21:21Z

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In System preferences Select Security & Privacy (Top row). When you click on it, this will come up: enter image description here

Click on the box that says Firewall options. This is the next screen you will see: enter image description here

Click on the + button in the middle left side and add Growl to the list. This should alleviate your problem.

answered Sep 17, 2012 at 19:21

Everett

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Nice. I was assuming Growl was automatically added to this when I clicked Allow. Thanks!
– cwd
Sep 17, 2012 at 19:53
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Just as an FYI, there is a nice little GUI front end for the Firewall called IceFloor ( hanynet.com/icefloor ). It adds a little more capability, and if you know what you are doing with PF Firewalls, it's a nice way to manage it. Just thought I'd mention it so that you're aware of it.
– Everett
Sep 17, 2012 at 20:03
I have AirVideo in there but it still asks me for permission on every startup!
– Nimbuz
Dec 24, 2012 at 4:30

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