Re: mac mini/wif fi/ usb

SteveH <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course, the company *could* just do the sensible thing and enable the
WiFi that's built into the laptops, but that would be far too easy.....

Well I can understand some of the reasons why not, particularly with the
number of unsecure connections around and various other unknowns,
particularly with XP.

I can see why some companies may not like the amount you can't lock down
macs, annoyingly even the basic ability to stop users changing their
passwords has been removed from 10.4 so I now have the potential for
multitude of staff users changing their passwords to some random
combination no bugger else knows :-/ I know you can reset the password
via admin now (useful addition anyway) but in the workplace I don't want
them changed in the first place.
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Jon B
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