On Jan 12, 2018, at 5:22 PM, Bill Cole <macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > All very well and good for a machine running an OS version that got the > ShellShock update from Apple.
people probably shouldn't be running an OS version that hasn't been patched for a 4 year old vulnerability. > One of the use cases for MacPorts is to keep older Macs that are physically > capable of doing significant work (e.g. as servers) updated in regards to the > open source parts of MacOS. I don't believe MacPorts should be in the business of helping people keep vulnerable (unsupported by upstream security patches) systems connected to the shared public resource that is the internet. I agree that the hardware is still useful and would suggest that there are alternative operating systems that are maintained and receive security patches that they could run instead. -- Daniel J. Luke
