Re: Security
A good start is something like this: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Practical_Guide_To_Unix_For_Mac_Os_X_U.html?id=o9K8KEQic5sC A little old, but it'll get you started. Care to share the article links you're looking at? We can help decipher them. Turning on the firewall is good, knowing which services to allow and not allow is simple for someone who knows the OS inside and out, but to a newb (and we've all been there, including me) it can be well nigh unintelligible. On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:20 AM, JohnV wrote: Yes Master. I will Master. I will study these things you have shown me. You have so much knowledge, Master, I will try to understand but there is SO much... Ignorance is NOT bliss... and I will still try to walk the rice paper, even though all I can manage so far is to blow my nose on it. Well, someday, grasshopper, you will snatch the pebble from my hand, and if it's by sneaking up behind me with a 2x4 you will have learned well! 8-P John Vengrouskie On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 16, 2012, at 8:19 AM, JohnV wrote: iMac intel In playing with security/firewall settings while reading aricles on Mac vulnerabilities, I changed a setting and now, when I fire up the iMac (10.6.8) , after logging in, I get a stacked set of identical windows, each asking if I want to ALLOW or DENY a named application to have access. I clicked on DENY on each but would appreciate a clue about what these things ARE. You went and fiddled with things you do not comprehend, Grasshopper, and now it's broken. 8-) Go forth and undo your doings. These are all things that OS X normally uses behind the scenes to do things. Google is your friend, man is your less friendly, but very knowledgeable local geeky 'friend'. Denying these services means you : cannot share files, cannot connect to Windows shares, cannot print. This is a common consequence of encountering scary security and vulnerability articles with not enough understanding of the underlying processes and systems involved. There are a lot of FUD-ish articles out there that make it sound as if your Mac is merely seconds away from being completely taken over by Albanian criminal hacker terrorists intent on using your mac to trade child porn, nuclear secrets and celebrity email passwords, and getting you thrown in Gitmo while stealing every cent you own and taking out 14 billion dollars in loans in your name from banks run by Russian mobsters, who WILL pay to invent a time machine to go back in time to threaten castrating your grandfather before your father was born to force you to pay back the loans... Out of the box, if nothing is turned on in the Sharing pane, your Mac is pretty much immune to outside attacks as is. If you're connected behind a typical DSL or Cable router using NAT, your mac is pretty much immune to outside attacks as is. All of these things are parts of services that are called when you have stuff in the sharing pane ticked. krb5kdc Kerberos, used for authentication by a host of services NAME krb5kdc - Kerberos V5 KDC SYNOPSIS krb5kdc [ -a ] [ -x db_args ] [ -d dbname ] [ -k keytype ] [ -M mkey- name ] [ -p portnum ] [ -m ] [ -r realm ] [ -4 v4mode ] [ -n ] DESCRIPTION krb5kdc is the Kerberos version 5 Authentication Service and Key Dis- tribution Center (AS/KDC). nmbd Look, you cannot share with Windows systems now. NAME nmbd - NetBIOS name server to provide NetBIOS over IP naming services to clients SYNOPSIS nmbd [-D] [-F] [-S] [-a] [-i] [-o] [-h] [-V] [-d debug level] [-H lmhosts file] [-l log directory] [-p port number] [-s con- figuration file] DESCRIPTION This program is part of the samba(7) suite. smbd Now you cannot mount volumes from Windows servers, either (or linux ones, or many NAS boxes) NAME smbd - server to provide SMB/CIFS services to clients SYNOPSIS smbd [-D] [-F] [-S] [-i] [-h] [-V] [-b] [-d debug level] [-l log directory] [-p port number(s)][-P profiling level] [-O socket option] [-s configuration file] DESCRIPTION This program is part of the samba(7) suite. cupsd The CUPS (heart of the printing system in OS X) central dispatcher. Since the Mac uses 'network' printing even to use locally attached printers, preventing cupsd from doing it's thing, means you cannot print. cupsd(8) Apple Inc. cupsd(8) NAME cupsd - cups scheduler SYNOPSIS cupsd [ -c config-file ] [ -f ] [ -F ] [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -t ] DESCRIPTION cupsd is the scheduler for CUPS. It implements a printing system based upon the Internet Printing Protocol, version 2.1. If no options are specified on the command-line then
Re: Failure to Import Mail
At 7:53 AM -0700 8/16/2012, Al Poulin wrote: Using POP mail works well for the way my wife and I share an e-mail account on separate Macs at home. I am using Apple Mail in OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on an iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. In preparing for a vacation trip, I attempted to move my e-mail holdings from the iMac to an iBook G4 1.33 GHz (2005) running the latest version of OS X 10.5 Leopard. With an Ethernet connection, the methods that I attempted failed, including Import at the iBook from Apple Mail, Import at the iBook from Files in mbox format, and simply copying the Mail folder from the iMac's user Library. Is there a way to do this? Something like ChronoSync perhaps? Thanks, In each release, Apple has made changes in the way their Mail app stores data. So I would not expect the older Mail app to be able to talk to the data from the newer Mail app. Not sure if manually changing the folder structure would be enough. I'm thinking Mail probably made changes to the individual file contents too. If you changed both to use IMAP, perhaps that would let you keep things in sync - at least for newer messages. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Failure to Import Mail
On Aug 17, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Dan wrote: At 7:53 AM -0700 8/16/2012, Al Poulin wrote: Using POP mail works well for the way my wife and I share an e-mail account on separate Macs at home. I am using Apple Mail in OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on an iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. In preparing for a vacation trip, I attempted to move my e-mail holdings from the iMac to an iBook G4 1.33 GHz (2005) running the latest version of OS X 10.5 Leopard. With an Ethernet connection, the methods that I attempted failed, including Import at the iBook from Apple Mail, Import at the iBook from Files in mbox format, and simply copying the Mail folder from the iMac's user Library. Is there a way to do this? Something like ChronoSync perhaps? Thanks, In each release, Apple has made changes in the way their Mail app stores data. So I would not expect the older Mail app to be able to talk to the data from the newer Mail app. Not sure if manually changing the folder structure would be enough. I'm thinking Mail probably made changes to the individual file contents too. If you changed both to use IMAP, perhaps that would let you keep things in sync - at least for newer messages. What Dan says: you can import mail going forwards, but not backwards...fundamentally you're trying to make POP do the job that IMAP was invented for. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Failure to Import Mail
On Aug 17, 1:12 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: What Dan says: you can import mail going forwards, but not backwards...fundamentally you're trying to make POP do the job that IMAP was invented for. Thanks Bruce and Dan for the insight into what Apple did to Mail, essentially making it impossible to import from newer to older versions of its own software, but ironically taking care of switchers, eh? Anyway, my wife and I will stick with POP. In our joint account, I don't want her erasing what I want to archive, nor to I want to erase hers. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
