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Re:Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in cl... by farmdawgnation on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:35PM (#3935869)
I never had legacy FileVault eat my homedir, but I did have issues with it forgetting what program was supposed to be used to open what kinds of files. Very strange, that.
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Re:Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in cl... by nigelk on Sunday May 06, 2012 @04:04PM (#3936138)
From memory this was due to LaunchServices not waiting until the home directory was completely mounted, and thus launching with default prefs.

There was a workaround I had running for a while in a large deployment in the form of a logouthook that would copy the relevant prefs to a location that LaunchServices would find it before FileVault finished mounting the home directory.

There were a lot of corporate/education deployments running "legacy" FileVault who hadn't invested in PGP WDE or other commercial options, and I bet they haven't all upgraded instantly to the new FileVault when they moved to Lion.

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