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Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom (9to5mac.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

For some reason, Apple's website where you can manage your Apple ID (appleid.apple.com) is blocking users of Linux browsers from accessing it. From a report: Having access to the website is important to manage things such as payment information, two-factor authentication, and other account details. Even though the number of Linux users accessing the website must be relatively small compared to other operating systems, some iPhone users who use Linux on the desktop noticed the issue. This behavior was first explained by user Alexander Martin on Mastodon. He discovered that when the browser reports itself as being a Linux browser, Apple's website will block the access by throwing a "Bad Gateway" error.

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  1. Apple and free don't mix well by kiviQr · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...if you don't have $$$ then they do not want you.

    1. Re: Apple and free don't mix well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Tell that to the cloud install that my business has. Right now, I'm paying the VPS for machine costs, and all my CM stuff is handled by Ansible playbooks. Total license cost? Zero. Were I to do the same in Windows, I would need at least 20 copies of Windows Server 2019 Data Center Edition, SCCM, a full volume license, and a metric ton of CALs. I then would need to throw in the time and effort to have patching done by SCCM, SCUP entries so third party stuff gets patched, AV software, and so on. Then, I'd need to have boxes for KMS activation, and so on.

      The Linux machines are configured so I can manually inspect erratas, and if the security patch is critical, they will fetch it themselves. Otherwise, I push stuff to them, test boxes first, then production.

      In house, I use KVM for virtualization. For authentication, FreeIPA. Backups? Cron + Borg Backup to borgbase, ensuring backups are encrypted, plus the SSH keys are append-only so ransomware can't take out backup repos.

      License costs $0. However, I do donate back to F/OSS projects because it is the right thing to do.

      Now, please explain to me again how Linux is expensive, and how it takes more time to learn, manage, and fix?

  2. Re:But not Android by jythie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah.. I suspect some horrible mess of nested if-then-else clauses with some fall throughs or cases with errors in them.