Fire up Software Update, Mac users. Security Update 2008-002 has been released. According to Apple, this update "...is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X. Previous security updates have been incorporated into this security update."So, it improves security. How exciting. As usual, we ask you to report any problems you encounter after installing this update. Good luck, true believers! Note that this update, like the earlier Safari 3.1, requires a reboot.
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3-18-2008 @ 7:07PM
daenney said...
Don't touch this update if you need SSH/SFTP functionality.
This update has broken ssh client for me and a number of other people as can be read here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6859298
Though the update might work just fine (other people don't have the issue), I'd stay away from it if you depend on this functionality for your work.
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3-18-2008 @ 7:54PM
Quine said...
THANK YOU for this alert. If I couldn't ssh I couldn't turn in my programs! I hope they get this fixed soon.
3-18-2008 @ 7:54PM
Quine said...
THANK YOU for this alert. If I couldn't ssh I couldn't turn in my programs! I hope they get this fixed soon.
3-18-2008 @ 7:55PM
artifex said...
thanks! that would have been horrendously bad.
3-18-2008 @ 10:05PM
Kurt said...
I upgraded and have no problems with ssh / sshd.
md5 /usr/sbin/sshd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 574416 Feb 26 21:03 /usr/bin/ssh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 691248 Feb 26 21:03 /usr/sbin/sshd
MD5 (/usr/bin/ssh) = 53be0ead4fa8e07461608cefd5474cce
MD5 (/usr/sbin/sshd) = 9957f27c3154dd0a45360e8f128db0d3
3-19-2008 @ 4:45AM
Ugar said...
Uninstalling Rogue Amoeba's Instant Hijack should help for the ssh-problem.
3-19-2008 @ 10:14AM
Micah said...
I updated and have had no problem with SSH
3-18-2008 @ 7:34PM
imacmatt09 said...
how come the apple store didn't go down today... i mean it is tuesday.
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3-18-2008 @ 7:37PM
Simon Arch said...
Steve's just messing with our minds, man. They do this a few weeks in a row, and then one week in the middle of April, BAM! New iMacs or something.
3-18-2008 @ 7:36PM
ZeroCorpse said...
I'm still waiting for a fix that lets me use DVD Player without getting a kernel panic on my santa rosa MacBook. Apple has been getting a lot of crash reports for this one, as evidenced by their discussion forums, but so far no fix has been offered for this decidedly software driver-based problem.
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3-19-2008 @ 3:54AM
dagaz said...
I have the same MacBook (Santa Rosa, 2.2GHz) and haven't had a single KP with it.
3-18-2008 @ 7:59PM
Julian Montez said...
Well, when I restarted my Macbook to apply the update, my laptop crashed. Everything was brutally slow when starting up, and once the update was applied, my Macbook was still slow.
I didn't read the comments to see that it broke SSH, so now I can't work on my web dev projects until they patch this. I've never been more disappointed with Apple.
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3-18-2008 @ 9:00PM
Sir. Poopy Pants said...
Whoops!
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3-18-2008 @ 9:43PM
Dan said...
SSH is broken here as well. I'm currently installing it from macports, which will hopefully provide a temporary fix. Also, 3rd party apps that use the protocol are not working either. Transmit cannot connect using sftp.
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3-18-2008 @ 9:48PM
Tyrannous said...
its pinwheel city over here on my 15 inch MBP 4gb RAM, sloooow, getting pinwheel for 15-30 seconds every time i click on something in safari....
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3-18-2008 @ 9:48PM
Ian Rickard said...
No SSH problems here - both private key and standard password auth.
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3-19-2008 @ 12:17AM
Ben said...
SSH is fine for me. Both in the terminal and in Transmit (SFTP).
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3-19-2008 @ 12:21AM
drew said...
Nothing major but I no longer see live previews of documents or movies in the dock, still work in finder...
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3-19-2008 @ 12:57AM
sam said...
This is an awesome update. It made my mbp way more secure.
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3-19-2008 @ 3:30AM
Dan said...
Looks like some folks on Apple's discussion forums are claiming some success when removing or otherwise disabling Rogue Amoeba's Instant Hijack.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1447915&tstart=0
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