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Security Update 2008-002 is available
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
daenney said 7:07PM on 3-18-2008
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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Quine said 7:54PM on 3-18-2008
THANK YOU for this alert. If I couldn't ssh I couldn't turn in my programs! I hope they get this fixed soon.
Quine said 7:54PM on 3-18-2008
THANK YOU for this alert. If I couldn't ssh I couldn't turn in my programs! I hope they get this fixed soon.
artifex said 7:55PM on 3-18-2008
thanks! that would have been horrendously bad.
Kurt said 10:05PM on 3-18-2008
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
Ugar said 4:45AM on 3-19-2008
Uninstalling Rogue Amoeba's Instant Hijack should help for the ssh-problem.
Micah said 10:14AM on 3-19-2008
I updated and have had no problem with SSH
imacmatt09 said 7:34PM on 3-18-2008
how come the apple store didn't go down today... i mean it is tuesday.
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Simon Arch said 7:37PM on 3-18-2008
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.
ZeroCorpse said 7:36PM on 3-18-2008
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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dagaz said 3:54AM on 3-19-2008
I have the same MacBook (Santa Rosa, 2.2GHz) and haven't had a single KP with it.
Julian Montez said 7:59PM on 3-18-2008
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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Sir. Poopy Pants said 9:00PM on 3-18-2008
Whoops!
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sam said 12:57AM on 3-19-2008
This is an awesome update. It made my mbp way more secure.
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Dan said 9:43PM on 3-18-2008
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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Ian Rickard said 9:48PM on 3-18-2008
No SSH problems here - both private key and standard password auth.
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Tyrannous said 9:48PM on 3-18-2008
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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Ben said 12:17AM on 3-19-2008
SSH is fine for me. Both in the terminal and in Transmit (SFTP).
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drew said 12:21AM on 3-19-2008
Nothing major but I no longer see live previews of documents or movies in the dock, still work in finder...
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Gustavo Barrón said 3:11PM on 3-19-2008
If you want to update and really are in need of SSH, to avoid the "Bus error", try installing Fink or MacPorts and installing ssh using one of this sources for your ssh.
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