I can't be the only person who thinks it's ridiculous for MacOS to repeatedly prompt the user to approve ssh opening sockets, right?
@jwb It doesn't for me (if you literally mean ssh itself). I tested with a -R port forward, which I think is something I've never done on this machine. And ssh doesn't show up in my firewall exception list either.
@headmold the exact thing it prompts is whether I want iterm to be able to find local devices. What terminal do you use? They might have whitelisted theirs.

@jwb Ah. Yeah I'm using the default. I reproduced your irritating warning box trying in kitty.

I remember getting that irritating message, but I haven't seen it in a while and I forget where I saw it. Maybe I added it to the firewall exclusion list or found some other hack, or maybe Apple whitelisted whatever that was too. I can't test because at least for now, I'm not getting that error from kitty anymore (but that could be temporary for a day or something).