Mac System Allow in Background Item Text

[Nick Bailey]

After the latest update there came a popup about an app from Jonathan Bullard wanting background permissions.

Even though this was directly after the TunnelBlick update, I was only paying half attention, and so I immediately worried who this was any why they wanted to run a service on my computer.

Any chance the "Allow in Background" item text could have something like "Jonathan Bullard - TunnelBlick" to make it a more obvious for the less observant among us.

[Tunnelblick developer]

Thanks for reporting this. (It's also discussed as Issue 771 on our GitHub repository.)

So far, we haven't been able to figure out a way to get macOS to show anything other than "Jonathan Bullard". macOS apparently does that because "Jonathan Bullard" is the identity that digitally signs the program. macOS is ignoring that the program is part of Tunnelblick, which it uses for our other background item. If macOS could at least display the name of the Background item, that would help, too. It's named "Tunnelblick-LaunchAtLogin".

[Tunnelblick developer]

We are testing an updated version of Tunnelblick that fixes this problem; to get a copy of it to help with testing it, please email devel...@tunnelblick.net.

[Connor Clawson]

This also happened to me after installing TunnelBlick 4.0.1 - Wasn't there when I installed it in February of 2024