Re: Emailing scripts for execution
Re: Emailing scripts for execution
- Subject: Re: Emailing scripts for execution
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:56:07 +0200
At 22:15 -0700 UTC, on 2005/08/18, Rob Lewis wrote:
> I have this fantasy about being able to email a script to my system
> and have it executed.
>
> The idea would be to use a Mail rule to detect that the message text
> body contained a script to be executed, then do it.
>
> Is this a pipe dream?
It seems to be daily reality for some 95% of computer users. They don't even
need a filter for it. It just works. Magic.
Someone mentioned Albert:
<http://www.afterten.com/products/albert/index.html>. While it does claim to
offer some sort of validation check, I'd still think twice before doing this
if I were you. Consider how much damage could be done when someone manages to
pass that check. Balance that against how safe its validation check is. (I
don't know. I haven't looked into it. If I were to consider doing something
like this, I'd probably prefer to rely on something like a PGP sig.)
Are you sure you can't use osascript over ssh? *That* would be secure
(provided you use a decent passphrase and keep it secret).
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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