'rapportd' incoming network connections

[hawkeye_a]

I just reinstalled MacOS Catalina 10.15, and every time I login, I get a dialog asking me:
"Do you want the application 'rapportd' to accept incoming network connections?'

I've never seen this before on any Mac i've owned, and googling for it didn't clear it up. Does anyone here know what its about?

Cheers

 

[TiggrToo]

I just reinstalled MacOS Catalina 10.15, and every time I login, I get a dialog asking me:
"Do you want the application 'rapportd' to accept incoming network connections?'

I've never seen this before on any Mac i've owned, and googling for it didn't clear it up. Does anyone here know what its about?

Cheers

What is rapportd and why does it want incoming network connections?

I've just updated to the latest MacOS 10.13.2 and after restarting, my machine asked me to allow incoming network connections for "rapportd". After blocking it and checking in the firewall config,...

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[997440]

It sounds that the reinstallation reset/broke communication connections which you use.

Other sample post from MR:

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I can't believe it - I solved this one myself. I had searched for quite a while to try to find the answers before I posted here, but everything I read told me to do exactly what I'd already done. After my post, I fooled with the settings on my devices for a while, then I took a deep breath and...

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And in Terminal app:

man rapportd

Output:
"rapportd(8) BSD System Manager's Manual

NAME
rapportd -- Rapport Daemon.

SYNOPSIS
Daemon that enables Phone Call Handoff and other communication features between Apple devices.

Use '/usr/libexec/rapportd -V' to get the version.

LOCATION
/usr/libexec/rapportd"

 

[hawkeye_a]

So bottom line.... "allow"?

 

[satcomer]

So bottom line.... "allow"?

Yes!