Missing firewall options in Jamf Pro

rpayne
Contributor II

How do we manage the "Automatically allow built-in software to receive incoming connections" and "Automatically allow downloaded signed software to receive incoming connections" options in the Firewall pane of System Settings? The only options in Jamf Pro are "Block all incoming connections and Control incoming connections for specific apps."

Am I missing something?

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rpayne
Contributor II

Here is the only options in Jamf ProScreenshot 2024-04-30 at 7.45.51 PM.png

RaxiaDK
Contributor II

RaxiaDK
Contributor II

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AJPinto
Honored Contributor II

Apple only has minimum controls for the macOS firewall build into the MDM protocols. Keep in mind that managing a Firewall technically falls under Security not Device Management, and you would want a security tool to manage this.

user-pWhYjAZxRj
New Contributor

According to Apple's Developer Configuration Profile Reference, the following keys are not supported. Both will be forced ON when the Firewall profile is activated (through Jamf Pro for example):

  • Automaticallyallowsigneddownloadedsoftware
  • Automaticallyallowbuilt-insoftware options

See page 44 of https://developer.apple.com/business/documentation/Configuration-Profile-Reference.pdf

JevermannNG
Contributor II

I use ProfileCreator for those settings. Just make sure that the exported Profile is signed before uploaded to the Jamf Server, otherwise Jamf might handle it wrong:

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