[27124] in bugtraq
Re: nidump on OS X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Watters)
Thu Sep 19 16:56:19 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:02:28 -0500
From: Blake Watters <sbw@ibiblio.org>
To: "Jason A. Fager" <fagerj@gsicommerce.com>
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Just tested this on Mac OS X Server 10.2 and have found that the behavior is in fact the same on OS X Server as on the client version. So the XServe point does hold some water. This is a bit of a disturbing problem, especially since it seems so trivial...
Blake
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:38:24 -0400
"Jason A. Fager" <fagerj@gsicommerce.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:28:48PM -0700, Dale Harris wrote:
>
> > However Apple hasn't seemed to bother addressing it yet since it
> > still persists in OS X.2 (Jaguar). You'd think they might have
> > taken the opportunity to fix this problem with a new major release.
>
> My understanding is that Apple is dumping NetInfo in favor of Open
> Directory (which is based on LDAP). Hopefully they have proper
> access-control mechanisms built into that. I can understand their
> unwillingness to spend time fixing a subsystem that is going away
> soon.
>
> Does Mac OS X Server exhibit the same behavior? Maybe the XServe
> argument is a moot point.
>
> jafager
