On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:28:48PM -0700, Dale Harris wrote: > However Apple hasn't seemed to bother addressing it yet since it > still persists in OS X.2 (Jaguar). You'd think they might have > taken the opportunity to fix this problem with a new major release. My understanding is that Apple is dumping NetInfo in favor of Open Directory (which is based on LDAP). Hopefully they have proper access-control mechanisms built into that. I can understand their unwillingness to spend time fixing a subsystem that is going away soon. Does Mac OS X Server exhibit the same behavior? Maybe the XServe argument is a moot point. jafager