Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Oct 2009 20:05 UTC
We generally don't report on individual bugs or security issues in operating systems, but a pretty serious bug has reared its ugly head in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. If you had a guest account enabled prior to installing Snow Leopard, then you are at risk of losing all your data.
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RE: Remove the guest account
by sbenitezb on Tue 13th Oct 2009 04:01
in reply to "Remove the guest account"
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RE[2]: Remove the guest account
by jbettcher on Tue 13th Oct 2009 04:27
in reply to "RE: Remove the guest account"
Member since:2008-06-15
Well considering the guest account is disabled by default the only thing enabled is that guest accounts can access Shared folders (if permissions allow). So you'd have to create a Guest account or figure out how to enable it on a machine where it is already disabled (which is most).
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2008-05-26
Apple should just remove the "guest login" ability from Mac OS X; they've been having nothing but trouble with it, and it looks like they can't be bothered to test it. Looks like they can't be bothered to program it correctly, actually.
Just remove it so nobody gets their system compromised again, and nobody loses their data again!