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I've been trying to set up some non-geek here with easy access to a local smb share. I don't really expect him to remember smb://domain;user:password@sever/share every day; but that shouldn't be a problem, right? I'll just make an alias to the share! Turns out, not such a good idea. Tried a...

Firstly, I should point out that there have been discussions on the openssh-dev list regarding probable remote-root exploits in all versions below 3. So you should immediately either upgrade to >=3, or turn of "Allow remote logins" in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. Attempting to do...

There appears to be a single system-wide clipboard which is globally readable and writable; this represents a huge security hole. A user can not only read anything which any other user places on the clipboard, they can replace it with content of their choosing. Even if no one is behaving in a...

Sadly, the Finder experiences a segfault when the total size of all desktops seems to exceed around ten million pixels. I ran into this when I put a third display on my machine, each running at 1600x1200; the Finder died almost immediately, and continued to generate segfaults upon further...

The only thing that's seriously, constantly, painfully hampering my comfort with os10 is the lack of multiple desktops/workspaces. I've looked around at bit at the usual places, bu haven't seen even a project in progress to make this available. I hope that someone can tell me that I'm...