Given the recent bash vulnerability disclosure[1]most linux distributions havereleased patches. Unfortunately Apple still expected users to compiletheir patches into bash. If you were using Homebrew or Macport you werein better standing and simply had to create symlinks to the patchedexecutables. I’ve documented the steps I had to take on my Macdesktop.
Compile mkdir bash cd bash/ wget http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/bash/bash-92.tar.gz tar zxvf bash-92.tar.gz cd bash-92 cd bash-3.2/ curl https://ftp.
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To connect to an OpenVPN server you need an appropriate OpenVPN clientinstalled to establish the SSL link. For Apple Mac OS X systems,TunnelBlick (http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/) is a good graphicaluser interface. At the time of this blog the current latest stableversion of TunnelBlick available was 3.2.7. These instructions wereexecuted on an Apple iMac running Mac OS X 10.7.4. As with all otherposts on this blog, the purpose of this post is not to provide atutorial, but instead to documents the steps taken, for my ownbenefit.
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