GaryMumford
macrumors 6502
No, It's not a major issue... But it's still sloppy work from Apple
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macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password [Updated]
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zorinlynx
macrumors G3
One thing I'm wondering is why Apple made such substantial changes to its authentication/security code. These bugs showed up in High Sierra; they are not in Sierra. However, there's not a lot of difference in how security/authentication works from a user's perspective between Sierra and High Sierra.
My question is, what did they change underneath that resulted in these bugs, and why? What was wrong with the old code that they felt they needed to muck about with it? If we had new security features, I'd understand code changes that might result in bugs. But we don't.
My question is, what did they change underneath that resulted in these bugs, and why? What was wrong with the old code that they felt they needed to muck about with it? If we had new security features, I'd understand code changes that might result in bugs. But we don't.
Apple get your act together.
It used to work quite well, "it just worked", it was aesthetic, it was safe.
Yearly updates are nonsense and this is what we're dealing with now.
I cannot believe that they are not listening to the things that Steve has said about "marketing" ruling a company. I cannot believe that they do not remember how slimming down the product line made it easier to focus and create stable products.
It's not that Microsoft is so much better, granted. But Apple used to be better.
It used to work quite well, "it just worked", it was aesthetic, it was safe.
Yearly updates are nonsense and this is what we're dealing with now.
I cannot believe that they are not listening to the things that Steve has said about "marketing" ruling a company. I cannot believe that they do not remember how slimming down the product line made it easier to focus and create stable products.
It's not that Microsoft is so much better, granted. But Apple used to be better.
jarman92
macrumors 68020
Its outrageous that another issue like this exists, but I would hardly say this is "rather serious." Bit of a reach on MacRumors part.
How does this even happen? How can you have authentication code that in one place accidentally accepts any password? That's just awful. The rot must go deep.
macduke
macrumors G5
This is so stupid that I’m starting to wonder if there is someone inside Apple actively trying to sabotage the company.
ikir
macrumors 68020
HiRez
macrumors 603
It sounds like the Apple software team needs a major shakeup, and more resources (Apple is notorious for pulling engineers off one project to work on another, usually anything iOS related). I think they are just spreading themselves too thin these days.
Testing needs to be a priority. I think the annual release schedules (centered around WWDC and fall iPhone rollouts) are making rush jobs and things like testing are probably the first thing to get less attention to make up time.
Testing needs to be a priority. I think the annual release schedules (centered around WWDC and fall iPhone rollouts) are making rush jobs and things like testing are probably the first thing to get less attention to make up time.
Chupa Chupa
macrumors G5
10.13.2: I can reproduce this when already logged in as an admin user, but not when logged in as a non-admin user.
THIS is the reason why I haven't upgraded to High Sierra yet, regardless of the weekly notifications that won't go away! The whole thing has been a disaster from start to finish. Just call it Vista and get the equivalent of W7 released.
M.PaulCezanne
macrumors 6502a
Bugs happen, but Apple is having a Microsoft Windows moment with High Sierra. What a PR nightmare (and rightly so).
cmaier
Suspended
jesus apple. For an OS release that was supposed to be a "no new features - focus on quality and performance" release, High Sierra is beyond a dumpster fire.
RuffyYoshi
macrumors regular
Yup, this is why I always install one generation older MacOS. I think it's time I did it with both MacOS and iOS.
iapplelove
Suspended
I don't understand why when a security flaw is found some @sshole has to go around and tell everybody about it. How about just making sure Apple knows and leave it at that? Jeez.
pallymore
macrumors regular
I don't think this is about how "serious" this bug is.
Probably no malicious user can take advantage of this - that's great but that doesn't mean Apple should be praised for it.
This shows how careless Apple has become when it comes to macOS. This is such an obvious bug that should have been easily caught by automated tests. On the stage Apple execs love bragging about how they care about security but in reality we've got two password-related stupid-level bugs in the same major release of their OS.