Mac OS X Lion fails to check passwords when authenticating via LDAP – The H Security: News and Features: When the new version of Mac OS X uses the LDAP directory service to store user data centrally, a username alone is sufficient to log onto Mac systems. In some circumstances it is also possible for all users to find themselves locked out
Category: Mac
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book: Mac Kung Fu: Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Mac Kung Fu
My bookmark: Tip 168 – “Add Blank Spaces to the Dock“.
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I am looking for a book on the Mac to recommend to a friend of mine …
This friend of mine (50+) needs a well-made introduction on “how to use my (almost) 1st computer, a MacBook“. I am not sure, I can convince this friend to upgrade to Lion for about EUR 25.
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the Adium forum on cocoaforge
cocoaforge • View forum – Adium
here you can search for discussions on the Skype plugin vs. Mac OS X Lion. -
Mac OS X Lion: from now on the printer they suggest to you is “Last Printer Used”
“Last Printer Used” – that’s quite a convenient suggestion and choice IMO.
If you don’t like that, you can of course choose your favourite standard printer.Actually they could have offered that ages ago. It feels like that was a standard long time ago, and it just got re-invented. Somehow a PITA.
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my GTalk / Adium / Lion problem is gone, and I was the problem
The lesson, I had to learn again:
Be cautious with fake /etc/hosts entry, even if they make sense temporarily!
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Adium not working in Mac OS X Lion
cocoaforge • View topic – Adium not working in Lion
Well, some corners work, some don’t.
It doesn’t function with (GTalk and) Skype so far.Update 2011-08-01:
Well, my GTalk problem was entirely my own problem, and it was entirely caused by myself. Rather embarrassing. -
Mac OS X Lion: from now on you can move more than one file to a different file system
wow, that took a while!