Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP

Re:Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating vi... by SoftwareMaven on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @11:18AM (#2921023)

First, this is a terrible bug. Shame on Apple for not rushing a fix, but...

Enterprises should not be doing immediate upgrades to any operating system, no matter how sparkly. I'm still waiting to upgrade my MacBook, and it's just me. No OS release goes off without a hitch (though there are some pretty impressive Linux releases!).

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Re:Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating vi... by tomelders on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:10PM (#2921242)

In all fairness, someone has to be an early adopter, otherwise issues like this would go unnoticed.

I've no idea how complex a problem it is to fix, but it is worrying that it seems to be taking a while for Apple to fix it.

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Re:Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating vi... by weaksauce on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:27PM (#2921322)

I think you are missing the point that the gp is making; any enterprise that this would affect should not be provisioning it to the servers/clients until they test it on a smaller scale. This issue would be found during the normal testing channels of enterprise adoption.

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Re:Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating vi... by joxenford on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @01:05PM (#2921524)

Nothing worse that righteous preaching...who knows what the op reasons are for upgrading...there could be very compelling reasons to move very quickly especially with Apple. Some models of newer Mac won't run anything older than the current OS release

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Re:Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating vi... by shaggyfrog on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:39PM (#2921392)

I had to upgrade to continue using the latest Xcode, although I'm not running that on Server.

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