MacOS: NABU Internet Adaptor fails to start

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clueless-engineer
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MacOS: NABU Internet Adaptor fails to start

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Hello comrade NABUers,

Trying to get the NABU IA running on my ARM MacBook with MacOS Ventura 13.3.1 and it continues to fail even with Gatekeeper disabled:

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brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air ~ % spctl --status
assessments disabled
brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air ~ % cd /Applications/NABU 
brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air NABU % ls -al
total 34984
drwxr-xr-x   5 brett  admin       160 29 Apr 08:00 .
drwxrwxr-x  33 root   admin      1056 29 Apr 07:59 ..
-rwxrwxr-x@  1 brett  staff  17832175 15 Apr 04:09 NABU-Internet-Adapter-84
-rw-rw-r--@  1 brett  staff      1123 20 Feb 10:54 README.TXT
-rw-rw-r--@  1 brett  staff     70464 18 Oct  2022 libSystem.IO.Ports.Native.dylib
brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air NABU % ./NABU-Internet-Adapter-84 
zsh: killed     ./NABU-Internet-Adapter-84
brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air NABU % sudo spctl --master-disable
Password:
brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air NABU % spctl --status             
assessments disabled
brett@Bretts-MacBook-Air NABU % ./NABU-Internet-Adapter-84 
zsh: killed     ./NABU-Internet-Adapter-84
So I was going to ask what I was doing wrong. I then realised I should also check console logs - found this:

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ASP: Security policy would not allow process: 1321, /Applications/NABU/NABU-Internet-Adapter-84
But checking in Preferences -> Security & Privacy shows everything should be allowed ... and I've already disabled Gatekeeper ... ?

Brett.
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Re: MacOS: NABU Internet Adaptor fails to start

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let us know what you discover. Seems different macs have different security settings.
clueless-engineer
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Re: MacOS: NABU Internet Adaptor fails to start

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I read that Apple made some big changes to Gatekeeper in Ventura, like it checks for signing & changes every time it executes, rather than just initially.

But still ... it's supposed to be disabled. Maybe it's been quarantined because I didn't disable it properly the first time ... ? Will check that.

I've also got a Mac mini server running 10.15 so I'll give that a go ... assuming I'll have more luck!

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Re: MacOS: NABU Internet Adaptor fails to start

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I have a code cert for signing binaries. Which I do for the windows installer. But I haven’t looked into signing a Mac binary. I should do that.
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Re: MacOS: NABU Internet Adaptor fails to start

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I don't mess with disabling any security settings, I just try to run it once, and after it fails there's an "Open anyway" option in the Privacy and Security preferences.

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