Select Security Policy under Startup Security Utility. Click Utilities in the Menu Bar and Select Startup Security Utility.ģ.
When requested, enter the password for an administrator account. More information can be found here: įrom a completely shut down system press and hold the power button until you see “Loading startup options” (approx. You need to switch your system in Recovery mode. Switch your Apple system in Recovery mode.
Below are the steps for manual change of the Security settings.ġ. If you have devices enrolled in MDM you can authorize remote management of kernel extensions automatically and change the security policy to allow LucidFS. More information on managing system extensions on Apple M1 machines can be found here.
This article describes briefly the steps to install the latest version of LucidFS and allow it in Security Preferences on macOS Big Sur.
Install LucidFS and update System Preferences. Click Utilities in the Menu Bar and Select Startup Security Utility. Otherwise it may be worth making the macfuse port check for an existing installation. If not, it may be best (certainly easiest!) to just leave things as is. I guess I'm really wondering if this is still a problem now that the port is updated to 2.0. Now that the port is up to date, this should be less of a problem. In that world, I could easily see problems if you had MacFUSE 1.x installed via MacPorts, and some fuse filesystem ports that depended on 1.x, and MacFUSE 2.0 and some non-port filesystems that use it. This ticket was created at a time when the macfuse port significantly lagged behind upstream (because 2.0 introduced a different build system). It probably doesn't matter so much whether this is achieved through autoupdate or through keeping the port up to date. The approach the developers seem to recommend is to always have the latest version installed to avoid conflicts. And any user-space file system daemons need to be built against the right version of the fuse library. It doesn't really make sense to have multiple installations, since they're going to conflict on the kernel extension if nothing else. I'm not sure what we can do about it, if anything's even possible. And, besides the autoupdate mechanism, there are various programs that ship a copy of MacFUSE (VMware Fusion comes to mind). I do understand why people are suggesting macfuse might be an exceptional case, because it installs files outside of $prefix (the kernel extension and a framework in /Library/Frameworks). (Indeed, it's best by far if they don't.) For most ports I'd just leave it at that.
and so we should just expect people not to install MacFUSE outside of MacPorts. If the port is outdated, its maintainer should update it.
MacPorts is the method by which software installed with MacPorts should be updated.
It's not appropriate for software installed with MacPorts to have its own automatic updater. Normally I would just agree with Ryan that All I can say is that it would be great if "it just worked". I'm not capable of determining which is the best approach, or if there are any side effects of my own attempt to solve this. I have temporarily solved my own problems (getting mp3fs-port to work with official Macfuse-install) by symlinking /opt/local/include/fuse to /usr/local/include/fuse (created by official installer) and each libfuse* in /opt/local/lib to the corresponding file in /usr/local/lib Maybe it would be possible to include the automatic updater in the port? Or maybe it would be better to just wrap the official installer with a port and link to the headers and lib-files for dependent ports to use ( suggested a long time ago by a Macfuse developer)? But at least the mp3fs-port doesn't work if other applications use the automatic updater and replaces the kernel extension. The recommended way to keep Macfuse up to date is through the official automatic updater. Since the version provided by macfuse is lagging a few versions behind it is becoming difficult to use the macfuse-dependent ports simultaneously with non-port fuse-filesystems. The kernel extension of macfuse is installed outside the "isolated" environment of macports and conflicts with other installations of the same kernel extension.