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Re: Running "mindterm" or other JAR files, and blocking them?



All of the clients are Panther, the server is Tiger, and yes we're on AD.
Would I run that command on every Panther client, or where?


On 9/29/05 11:10 AM, "Geoff Lee" <email@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 28 Sep 2005, at 22:00, John Buell wrote:
> 
>> Similar to this, I noticed that ssh://<some IP address> will open
>> Terminal
>> as a "helper application" from Safari, which is permitted under
>> Workgroup
>> Manager. What have the rest of you done - removed Terminal.app,
>> renamed it
>> or something else?
> 
> Are you on tiger? As long as the user has no shell defined, terminal
> will not run. I think the same is true in panther.
> Just make sure users shells are set to /bin/false. Or if you're bound
> to AD, you want dsconfigad -shell none.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -geoff
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/28/05 3:39 PM, "John Buell" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Just today I had a student running "mindterm" and using that to
>>> ssh back to
>>> some other computer somewhere (still trying to figure out where
>>> that was).
>>> With some investigating I figured it was as easy as a download, as
>>> it will
>>> run through Safari (or even Firefox), being a .jar file. Is there
>>> a good way
>>> to block execution of such files through MCX?
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> John Buell
>> Computer Technician
>> Kane County School District 129
>> North Aurora, Aurora and Montgomery, IL
>> 
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-- 
John Buell
Computer Technician
Kane County School District 129
North Aurora, Aurora and Montgomery, IL


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