Repair file sharing after Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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Post by kylesethgray » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 11:41 PM UTC

Repair file sharing after Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
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Re: Repair file sharing after Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

#2

Post by excalibur » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 12:23 AM UTC

Quick show of hands, who here is surprised that this patch broke something?

Re: Repair file sharing after Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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Post by pwinnski » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 12:39 AM UTC

This is why it should take more than 24 hours to put out a patch for an operating system.

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Post by gpm » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 12:41 AM UTC

pwinnski wrote: post #3

This is why it should take more than 24 hours to put out a patch for an operating system.

When the choice is between "allow public, easy, possibly remote, root access" or "maybe deal with a bit of inconvenience fixing the fix" I'll take the second one.

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Post by nkkollaw » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 12:42 AM UTC

What a mess.

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Post by yuhong » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 12:53 AM UTC

I remember the emergency Java patch after Flashback. I think it also had an issue.

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Post by cmlndz » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 1:00 AM UTC

I think this shows the poor state of Apple’s QA. Theorically there should be a list of predefined tests with a binary output, to pass the test or not. Before deploying anything, tests must be run and passed. It seems the procedure is very human-dependant.

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Post by eccstartup » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 1:05 AM UTC

"If you experience issues with authenticating or connecting to file shares on your Mac after you install Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1" --Will I experience that? How can I tell before experiencing that?

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Post by bichiliad » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 1:06 AM UTC

I seriously can't imagine how much pressure engineers at Apple were to ship this patch. Considering they tend to ship infrequently, I doubt they have the sort of QA turn-around that'd support emergency releases.

Remember that:

  - They learned about this yesterday

  - They had as much heads up as the general public did

  - They are a large company.

I don't disagree that the apparent QA quality from Apple software isn't what it used to be, but we all have to take these sorts of things with a grain of salt. I've certainly been in situations like this before.

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Post by roblabla » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 1:10 AM UTC

bichiliad wrote: post #9

I seriously can't imagine how much pressure engineers at Apple were to ship this patch. Considering they tend to ship infrequently, I doubt they have the sort of QA turn-around that'd support emergency releases. Remember that: - They learned about this yesterday - They had as much heads up as the general public did - They are a large company. I don't disagree that the apparent QA quality from Apple software isn't wha…

The fact they learned this only yesterday is amazingly stupid to start with. People were talking about this weeks ago on the Apple Forums, as a "neat trick" : https://twitter.com/fristle/status/935670476214378496. Surely a moderator should have noticed something was wrong at that point.

This is a major fuckup the kind of which should be illegal.