Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Startup Password - FMFD? Date: 10 Nov 2016 19:46:05 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <2016111009314913691-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016111010215673213-xxx@yyyzzz> X-Trace: individual.net a73gld8Wru1gsGWJYmcWVgbpoaIw6yboRbkQGkQ9jyMDmTRSZz Cancel-Lock: sha1:5s0iknV4jG1pFEi7EC6lAglFyC4= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:96706 On 2016-11-10, gtr wrote: > On 2016-11-10 17:48:53 +0000, Jolly Roger said: > >> On 2016-11-10, gtr wrote: >>> In rebooting my computer today I got a request for system password from >>> fmfd. I granted it, but would kinda like to know what it is and what >>> it does. Apparently relate to "Find My Mac" >> >> I believe this is the Find My Friends Daemon (FMFD). >> >>> I don't know why it suddenly wants my system password on startup. >> >> I've never seen it ask for credentials, even though I've enabled System >> Preferences > iCloud > Find My Mac on numerous Macs. > > I installed Folx for hot-diggity downloading. I didn't care for it > and uninstalled it according to their website: Drag it to the trash, > empty trash. Someone had sent me a link to a file for download > through an email. A simple download. I clicked on it. It went to > Safari and did nothing. Did Safari attempt to download the file? What showed up in the location bar (URL)? > I had clicked the same download 15 minutes earlier and it went through > Folx, and I though, "what's the point of this thing, I was doing fine > without it". Now, the link simply flashed in Safari and does nothing. > Again I'm confounded. > I've never felt I needed an app just to manage my downloads. It would only complicate what is already brain-dead simple. > I rebooted the machine and that's when this credentials thing happened > with FMFD. Probably just a coincidence. > Still Safari did nothing with the link. What was the link? Did Safari even attempt to connect? > I tried fiddling with some preferences to see if I could make it work, > among them turning off JavaScript. Then I did some regular stuff, > among which was going to Apple's icloud site. I find it want's > JavaScript is *required*. After all this chatter about potential > issues with Java, I was kind of surprised. Java isn't the same thing as Javascript. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR