OS X, being BSD Unix under the hood, uses iptables to implement its
firewall and indeed ipfw is the interface to it. Check the manpage for
details of its options. I am not sure where the standard location for
the configuration would be, but a bit of a google on the above two
keywords should locate it, or at least find the name of the file. I
would strongly recommend going via ipfw though, since it will (I would
imagine) do sanity checking on the entries you add.
You may also be interested in the Bastille Linux project since they are
doing an OS X port, and this presentation by them:
Hi All,
I am pretty new to the Mac OS and I need to know how to configure the
Firewall Exceptions Programmatically, like add application exception
or port exception on to the firewall.
I searched the list, They all metioned that we don't have APIs to do
that. I am wondering if it is still true for Mac OS10?
One thread methioned that ipfw may do the trick, can someone tell me
how?
Where is the Firewall information is saved in the system?
Thanks a lot everyone!
Gordon
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