Re: Aqua

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From: Paul Mison
Subject: Re: Aqua
Date: 14:22 on 30 Mar 2004
On 30/03/2004 at 14:07 +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
>One such example is the smb password dialog on OSX - currently it stays
>ontop obscuring everything even when you're trying to load up say,
>keychain, to look for a password (and while we're hating *why* oh *why*
>won't that store my username and password in keychain for itself?)

Because your username on the server isn't the same as your username 
locally. You can force it to store the password by connecting as 
username@xxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.

This is, of course, hatefully stupid, and awkward to remember.

Me, I use AFP, which I find generally less hateful. Mind you, 
Netatalk on Debian doesn't have secure password support compiled in 
for licensing reasons, so I have to build it myself, and it doesn't 
handle files over 2GB. Like, say, disk images backing up my machine. 
Bah.

I'd mention how much less I hate the 10.3.3 file sharing model, but 
that's, er, not the point here, is it?

-- 
:: paul
:: historic light cone
There's stuff above here

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