Jaharmi’s Irrealityrenewable hyperlinks with 0% transfat since 1999http://www.jaharmi.com/node/110/atom/feed2007-03-15T15:21:23-05:00Thoughts on Mac OS X 10.4.9 from the MacEnterprise extended KB articlehttp://www.jaharmi.com/thoughts_on_mac_os_x_10_4_9_from_the_macenterprise_extended_kb_article2007-03-15T15:18:39-05:002007-03-15T15:21:23-05:00JaharmiBased on my reading of the MacEnterprise.org extended knowledgebase article on Mac OS X 10.4.9, some interesting changes have been made. Here are some of my comments on items listed in that article:
“Includes iChat support for USB Video Class webcams,” which seems to mean that UVC webcams will work without additional drivers on this version of the OS … so I doubt we’ll see a replacement for the standalone Apple iSight and I wouldn’t doubt we’ll just have to make do with the third-party opportunities this presents.
“Resolves an issue when using Kerberos authentication with Active Directory if the user is a member of many groups,” which may mean that my problem with binding to Active Directory over UDP using an account with a large TokenGroups attribute is resolved … presumably, if it is fixed, the kpasswd utility now supports TCP as well (although I do not see a change to /usr/bin/kpasswd in a Radmind transcript, the Kerberos framework did change).
“Adds support for WPA2 encryption in Network Diagnostics,” which is an option that is coming at just the right time for me.
“Includes updated security certificates,” which should mean that the root SSL certificates database has been updated (I note in a Radmind transcript that both X509Anchors and X509Certificates has changed with this update).
I’m not exactly hip with whatever change happened in /private/var/db/sudo. Based on what I’m seeing, a subdirectory for each sudo user will appear; so far, I’ve only seen this on Radmind model systems, and so I see one subdirectory with a blank “ttyp1” file inside. I think I might want to put this new directory in a negative transcript for Radmind.
[Via Philip Rinehart on the MacEnterprise.org list.]
“Includes iChat support for USB Video Class webcams,” which seems to mean that UVC webcams will work without additional drivers on this version of the OS … so I doubt we’ll see a replacement for the standalone Apple iSight and I wouldn’t doubt we’ll just have to make do with the third-party opportunities this presents.
“Resolves an issue when using Kerberos authentication with Active Directory if the user is a member of many groups,” which may mean that my problem with binding to Active Directory over UDP using an account with a large TokenGroups attribute is resolved … presumably, if it is fixed, the kpasswd utility now supports TCP as well (although I do not see a change to /usr/bin/kpasswd in a Radmind transcript, the Kerberos framework did change).
“Adds support for WPA2 encryption in Network Diagnostics,” which is an option that is coming at just the right time for me.
“Includes updated security certificates,” which should mean that the root SSL certificates database has been updated (I note in a Radmind transcript that both X509Anchors and X509Certificates has changed with this update).
I’m not exactly hip with whatever change happened in /private/var/db/sudo. Based on what I’m seeing, a subdirectory for each sudo user will appear; so far, I’ve only seen this on Radmind model systems, and so I see one subdirectory with a blank “ttyp1” file inside. I think I might want to put this new directory in a negative transcript for Radmind.
[Via Philip Rinehart on the MacEnterprise.org list.]