OS X Security Warning on Email Attachments: Getting rid of them
A colleague of mine recently pointed out that when you unzip an archive of scripts received as an email attachment, every time you open a file, you get a warning like this:
“csvimport.inc.php” is a script application which was attached to a mail message. Are you sure you want to open it?
When you have dozens of scripts to look at, clicking through this warning each time is irritating, to say the least. A little examination of the xattr flags on these files, though, revealed the problem:
$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 6 2009, 19:02:12)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xattr
>>> xattr.listxattr('config.inc.php')
(u'com.apple.quarantine',)
>>>
There is a flag on such files called 'com.apple.quarantine'. This flag needs to be cleared.
Originally, I was going to write a script to do this, but a quick google obviated that need. Mark Liyanage has done this already. He shows two different ways to clear the flag. <!--break-->
