unsigned kexts on Yosemite

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jun 2 23:47:39 PDT 2015


On 2014-10-30 13:21 , Joshua Root wrote:
> So, this is interesting:
> 
> <http://dan.langille.org/2014/10/28/getting-openconnect-tuntap-working-on-yosemite-osx/>
> 
> Unless the author missed a step, it appears to be saying that kextload
> will load unsigned kexts. Can anyone confirm or deny? (I don't have any
> unsigned kexts handy to try.)

Finally got around to trying an unsigned kext, and the answer is no,
neither kextload nor kextutil will load unsigned kexts at all (without
kext-dev-mode=1 in the kernel boot args).

- Josh


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