Leopard did away with opening specific ports like Tiger let you do...WTF?

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aplnubaplnub
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in macOS edited January 2014
Like the title states. Tonight it has become painfully clear that Apple has done away with the advanced Firewall setting that made opening and closing ports on your computer a breeze. For instance, I may want to open up port 8000 for Security Spy and port 22 for SFTP and ports 5900 - 5902 for VNC sessions along with ports for other things.



You can no longer do this and I can't get the ports open I need to access my computer from far away places like Tiger would.



WTF was Apple thinking on this?

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    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer Posts: 7,503member
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    Like the title states. Tonight it has become painfully clear that Apple has did away with the advanced Firewall setting that made opening and closing ports on your computer a breeze. For instance, I may want to open up port 8000 for Security Spy and port 22 for SFTP and ports 5900 - 5902 for VNC sessions along with ports for other things.



    You can no longer do this and I can't get the ports open I need to access my computer from far away places like Tiger would.



    WTF was Apple thinking on this?



    I think you need to do some more research. SFTP works fine.
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    aplnubaplnub Posts: 2,606member
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    I think you need to do some more research. SFTP works fine.



    I can't get any of my computers to sftp into my iMac using Transmit. It is enabled in the sharing tab.



    But none-the-less, that doesn't change the fact you can't open specific ports.
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    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    I'm not sure WTF Apple's been doing firewall-wise, but they better use the standard BSD one and notwrite their own. Flexible firewalls = good, but I'll take an impenetrable firewall with few options over whatever the've done to the firewall.



    10.4's firewall was great, IMHO. I don't see what they're up to.
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    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer Posts: 7,503member
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    I can't get any of my computers to sftp into my iMac using Transmit. It is enabled in the sharing tab.



    But none-the-less, that doesn't change the fact you can't open specific ports.



    http://images.apple.com/server/macos...dmin_v10.5.pdf



    More info:

    http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/



    By the way: the ipfw is available.



    Welcome to Terminal.app.
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