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I am away - Re: Emailing scripts for execution


  • Subject: I am away - Re: Emailing scripts for execution
  • From: "d.hough" <email@hidden>
  • Date: 19 Aug 2005 07:04:18 +0100

I am now on holiday until the 22nd of August, I will deal with your enquiry as soon as I return.

Regards
Dan HoughAt 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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