>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at >08:33:04AM +0800, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: >> MacOS X 10.3.3 is now available via Software Update. > >For Ryan Schotte's interest: "Improves security by requiring an >administrator to authenticate for each Finder action that needs >authentication, such as installing software. In earlier Mac OS X >Panther versions, an administrator who authenticated may have >unknowingly given elevated priviledges (sic) to the non-admin user for >5 minutes. This change also prevents a normal user from performing >administrator actions if an administrator user has authenticated >during their session."
And I will sleep better now James! Sure sounds like it might fix my favourite 'stupidly annoying bug' in 10.3.2's security... :) But 58.8MB! What's Apple trying to do, single-handedly kickstart the broadband industry? -Ryan
