Choose Enable automatic profile switching in Preferences > APS. However you can also automate this process. With the steps taken so far, you can activate profiles at will by selecting them in the status menu. Otherwise they are created effective in all profiles. When it is selected and highlighted, rules are created in the current profile. When a profile is active, you will notice an additional button in the connection alert: If you want to copy it, hold down the Option key to create a copy of the rule in the profile. Note that by default the rule is moved (its profile property is set to the new profile). Assigning rules to profilesĪfter you have created profiles, you can drag rules to them in Little Snitch Configuration’s sidebar. Profiles are global, which means they can be seen and edited by all users. You can edit profiles by double-clicking them in the sidebar. Once you have created the first profile, the Profiles section appears in Little Snitch Configuration’s sidebar, listing your first profile. The profile editor window opens where you can enter the new profile’s name and options: Or choose New Profile… from the File menu. Open the Rules window and click the + button in the toolbar: in the status menu, it needs to be created in Little Snitch Configuration. Creating and editing profilesīefore you can choose a profile e.g. Switching to Silent Mode is very useful during presentations. In addition to changing the rules in effect, profiles can change the Mode of Operation. If a profile is active, all rules that have that profile as their profile set participate in rule matching, as well as all rules without a profile (because they are effective in all profiles). All rules that have a profile are ignored. rules that are effective in all profiles) participate in rule matching. If no profile is active, only rules which have no profile set (i.e.
Note that changing the currently active profile for one user also changes it for all other users on the computer. In Little Snitch, either no profile is active or one profile is active (the current profile). This property can be set to a particular profile (the rule is said to be in a profile) or it can be empty (rule is said to be effective in all profiles). How profiles workĮvery rule has a profile property. With Profiles, you can easily master all these situations, especially with automatic profile switching. Similarly, if you use your computer to present slides when you give a talk, you definitely don’t want to be interrupted by connection alerts.
When tethering using an expensive or slow data plan, you may want to deny software updates. an Internet Café) you may want to deny local network connections. If you use a mobile computer and connect it to various networks when you travel around, you’ll soon have the desire to use a different set of rules in different situations.
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