Hosts-manager

[Li Zong]

I created this workflow. 

 

No dependency.

How to Use

• Quick View

  hosts

• Add (if the corresponding domain name already exists, it will be updated)

  hosts add 127.0.0.1 google.com

• Delete

  hosts del google.com

Note: Set the system password to the value of password. (requires administrator privileges to modify the hosts file

 

Download... | Github

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Li Zong

[vitor]

Thank you for the submission, but this requires having the macOS system password in plain text in the workflow, which is not great for security. It means that anyone could open the workflow and see what your password is. Don’t want to incentivise users to do that. An alternative might be to use AppleScript’s do shell script with administrator privileges, which should trigger macOS to ask for the password or biometric authentication at the time of changes.

Two other notes for future submissions:

• The contents should be in English-only.
• The screenshot doesn’t follow the method requested in the pinned post.
  

[Li Zong]

14 hours ago, vitor said:

Thank you for the submission, but this requires having the macOS system password in plain text in the workflow, which is not great for security. It means that anyone could open the workflow and see what your password is. Don’t want to incentivise users to do that. An alternative might be to use AppleScript’s do shell script with administrator privileges, which should trigger macOS to ask for the password or biometric authentication at the time of changes.

Two other notes for future submissions:

• The contents should be in English-only.
• The screenshot doesn’t follow the method requested in the pinned post.

 

thank you for your reply.
The original intention of the design is to be unwilling to enter the password when modifying the hosts file, so the process is to save the password directly. Secondly, because I am using it personally, I have not considered security. I will pay more attention to this issue in the future.