[aequitas]

I know it's not protocol to talk down Show HN submissions. But this is just a shell script loading a core component of TBS [0] during login without password prompts: by saving your password in a plain text file.

I can agree that password prompts at login are not the best user experience but security is there for a reason.

Maybe TBS should implement this using the privileged helper pattern [1] which allow a small daemon with root permissions to perform actions for a userland application through a secure RPC channel.

[0] https://github.com/rugarciap/Turbo-Boost-Switcher

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/servicemanagement/...

[stefan_]

Well, it also loads a random kernel extension that is only there as a binary blob that the author didn't make.

[em500]

> I know it's not protocol to talk down Show HN submissions. But this is just a shell script loading a core component of TBS [0] during login without password prompts: by saving your password in a plain text file.

And TBS itself is (self-admittedly) largely a graphical wrapper around this kernel extension: https://github.com/nanoant/DisableTurboBoost.kext

[akx]

TBS's Pro version uses a privileged helper, says so in the readme. :)