Based 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.]