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If you don't want to take this security risk with all TeX code on your system, you might like to consider the following change to the appropriate line in [[texexec.ini]]: <pre>for tetex set TeXPassString to -progname=context -shell-escape</pre> (If yours is a non-tetex system, choose the appropriate line. If there are other options present, like <tt>--default-translate-file=cp8bit</tt>, then don't delete them!) This will enable <tt>\write18</tt> support per <tt>texexec</tt> job, and not system-wide. An administrator would therefore only have to worry about malicious ConTeXt code, and not about other TeX systems running. With the second modification, you can leave the <tt>shell_escape</tt> line in <tt>texmf.cnf</tt> commented out/false. '''Hint for MikTeX users:''' The counterpart to <tt>texmf.cfgcnf</tt> is <tt>miktex.ini</tt>.