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Security Update 2003-07-23

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A security update (2003-07-23) is now available to users of Mac OS X Server:

Security Update 2003-07-23 improves the security of your system by assigning a "disabled" password to a new account created by Workgroup Manager until that account has been saved for the first time. This ensures the new account cannot be accessed by an unauthorized individual.
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There have been reports of a Mac OS X Client version of this update was briefly released into Software Update -- and then pulled for unknown reasons.
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2003/07/23/security-update-2003-07-23/
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Or perhaps this is the cause of all the confusion/pull;

AppleMatt
 

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I am a little leary about software updates from Apple now - at least for my server. A week ago I did the "Hard disk" update that was supposed to improve reliability to certain hard drives. Turns out it destroyed my ATA drive that contained my OS server system software. Thank god my data was on other disks (and of course backed up). Guess Apple's idea of "improve reliability" means "if it doesn't need it we will break it so you can go buy a new hard drive that will be more reliable.

I really don't blame Apple but I am much more leary now about software updates for my server. This one sounds like it may have some issues so I am going to wait.
 
Maybe it doesn't show up for everyone because it updates Workgroup Manager, which is part of the 10.2 server tools. Not many people have them installed.
 
Originally posted by AstroPlain
Maybe it doesn't show up for everyone because it updates Workgroup Manager, which is part of the 10.2 server tools. Not many people have them installed.
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That sounds logical, but I think the Software Update wouldn't have brought up the update if you didn't 'need' to have the update, also, why would Apple have pulled it?
 
Apple Software Updates

I've always been the first to install new updates.

But then again I worked for Apple and supported it. So if the customer was hosed, I was hosed. It's not like I do mission critical work on my mac at home. And I'm stuck with XP at work.

But this would not be the first time an ASU update broke something, nor will it be the last. If you call Apple though, they'll tell you to make sure and do all your updates. Take your vitamins like a good little kid, even if the vitamins have attrocious side effects like deafness, amnesia, and fainting spells. Heh.

Unfortunately, there are times when even the best quality control can't sniff out the errors that cause these things.

Jaedreth
 
Testing and ASU's

They do test them. However, they can't test them in every possible configuration people will have. Unfortunately for such small updates, and such limited resources they have for testing, they can't feasably expect to test on a hundred different machines of random testing for four weeks because such intense scrutinizing testing on a meager software update would cost the company more than actually making the update. Apple does good quality control on its updates. But nobody is perfect. How many times has a Windows update hosed someone's machine? Now compare that to ASU. By comparison, Apple had a decent track record.

Jaedreth
 
Originally posted by macnews
I am a little leary about software updates from Apple now - at least for my server. A week ago I did the "Hard disk" update that was supposed to improve reliability to certain hard drives. Turns out it destroyed my ATA drive that contained my OS server system software. Thank god my data was on other disks (and of course backed up). Guess Apple's idea of "improve reliability" means "if it doesn't need it we will break it so you can go buy a new hard drive that will be more reliable.
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Same here. I recently reset my ibook and imac to zeros because of all the problems with 10.2.6, especially slow startup time. Since i reinstalled, things are better.
 
agreed on the windows update. I'm usually wary of ANY kind of OS updates, and i was suprised to hear that Apple would have problems with this as well.

I know with Windows, this certain SP2 update called "811493" that caused many of the popular K7 based Nforce boards to have CPU utlization @ 100% with ANY kind of disk activity. MS subsequently released an update to remedy it, but i'm not so sure that everyone out there knows about it...

Hence people will think their computers are getting "slow" and need a reformat when all they actually need is the patch--bah.
 
I didn't want to come across as not liking Apple updates. I agree with the windows updates hosing as well - more times than I care to remember.

I do update on my imac at home but normally wait a few weeks on my server at work. This time though a few weeks didn't work. People weren't really talking about it (the hard disk update) and I didn't look for it. From now on I am going to wait a few weeks (for the rest of you to test) and then do a search for comments on the update, then install. No one is perfect but I hate working triple time (I'm salaried so no extra pay) to bring my server back to life after a simple update.
 
It's only needed if you have (or had) installed the Mac OS X Server Admin Tools.

Else ignore it, you're Macs damn secure anyway.

AppleMatt
 
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