[Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?

[Brian Reid]

Apple is right about the security of PPTP, but their habit of deleting things 
whose security they question is downright annoying.

Of course, Google just removed the largest certificate authority (Symantec) from 
Chrome and Mozilla, which has put the entire security certificate world into a 
massive dither. It's not just Apple.

On 4/5/18 9:40 AM, Robert Baron via LUG wrote:
> One cautionary tale:  I have a high end but somewhat elderly (mid-2010
> version) iMac desktop with 16GB RAM etc etc and a robust 2015 MacBook Air
> that were running reasonably well on Yosemite but when I tried to upgrade
> them to the latest version of Lightroom, Adobe (I believe) said I needed to
> upgrade my OS to fully implement the features in the upgrade  so I did the
> upgrading to High Sierra.  All seemed fine until I discovered that High
> Sierra had deleted the VPN settings connecting me from home or my laptop to
> my office.
> 
> So I did some research (Google) and learned "yes, it does that".
> Apparently Apple doesn't think the PPTP VPN method of connecting is secure
> any more and won't enable it (Brian, feel free to chime in here, I've
> exhausted my vocabulary not to mention my knowledge).  It would have been
> nice if I had known this before considering whether the free upgrade would
> be worth the price.
> 
> Since this is well outside my skill set I contacted the tech service that
> maintains our office servers and network and was told 'hrmmm, Apple may be
> right and we'll look into it.'  So far they are still looking.
> 
> Hope This Helps.
> 
> --Bob
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>