[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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