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10.5.1 firewall and Skype
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After upgrading to 10.5.1, every time I launch Skype.app I got the same dialog box asking me if I want to allow it to accept incoming connections. My firewall setting is "Set access for specific services and applications" and Skype is in the list of applications with "Allow incoming connections".
The Skype version is 2.7.0.49 BETA. Anyone experiencing the same problem?
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Originally Posted by fortepianissimo 
After upgrading to 10.5.1, every time I launch Skype.app I got the same dialog box asking me if I want to allow it to accept incoming connections. My firewall setting is "Set access for specific services and applications" and Skype is in the list of applications with "Allow incoming connections".
The Skype version is 2.7.0.49 BETA. Anyone experiencing the same problem?
Might be another code signing issue.
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You don't need to set a rule for Skype if you set Firewall to only essential services. Skype works.
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Originally Posted by PaperNotes
You don't need to set a rule for Skype if you set Firewall to only essential services. Skype works.
What??? Skype is an "essential service?"
I don't consider Skype to be an "essential service." That port should be closed if the firewall is set to "Only essential services."
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No no no. If you set Leopard's firewall to allow only essential services then you wouldn't have to create rules for apps like Skype. Skype works fine that way.
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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. As government grows, liberty decreases" - Thomas Jefferson
"Tony Blair is very anxious to be seen as green. Everything has to be couched in environmental language - even if it's slightly Orwellian." - Jonathan Mendelsohn, director of general election resources for the British Labour Party.
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Originally Posted by Person Man
Might be another code signing issue.
I'm guessing in the effort to correct the old Skype problem quickly (10.5.0 only allows Skype to launch once if your firewall setting is ""Set access for specific services and applications"), Apple just whitelisted Skype so no code signing is done with Skype (so no change of binary could happen). But then OS X never remembers Skype's signature.
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Originally Posted by PaperNotes
No no no. If you set Leopard's firewall to allow only essential services then you wouldn't have to create rules for apps like Skype. Skype works fine that way.
Hm I failed to see how this replies to Person Man's question...
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Maybe I'm being stupid, but what the hell does keeping the port for Skype open in the firewall by default (by designating Skype an "essential service") have to do with code signing?
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