[Ti] Intel Mac Mini?

Bill Fox wfoxjr at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 1 20:09:14 PST 2006


This sounds like a good solution. Thanks for sharing.

Bill

On Mar 1, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Norman Cohen wrote:

> I'd suggest installing Safe Terminal, available at MacUpdate and  
> Version Tracker. It's an input manager that will put up a dialog  
> box before running any shell script launched from outside Terminal.  
> From the description on MacUpdate:
>
> "Safe Terminal fixes a security weakness with Mac OS X Terminal  
> utility, when it execute shell scripts without the user confirmation.
> If Safari "Open safe files after download" is enabled, its possible  
> to create malicious shell scripts that will be executed by the  
> Terminal automatically after you download them. It is also possible  
> to create malicious shell scripts that look like a document or a  
> folder, that will be executed by Terminal on double click without  
> warning.
>
> After Safe Terminal is installed, the Terminal utility will show an  
> alert before executing a shell script, allowing the user to confirm  
> or cancel. The usage of the Terminal to type and run commands is  
> not effected in any way."



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