Tags showing up in another user account as aliases

PLEASE FIX THIS URGENTLY - SECURITY ISSUE

Under no circumstances (regardless of any permissions!) may tags of one user be seen or modified by another user on the same machine. It wouldn't make sense to share tags.

Reason 1: Other users can see what I am working on. This is a security issue.

Reason 2: Other users can rename my tags, cauing a mess and confusion !

@Apple, Please confirm when and how this is fixed.

wartburg wrote:

PLEASE FIX THIS URGENTLY - SECURITY ISSUE

Under no circumstances (regardless of any permissions!) may tags of one user be seen or modified by another user on the same machine. It wouldn't make sense to share tags.

Reason 1: Other users can see what I am working on. This is a security issue.

Reason 2: Other users can rename my tags, cauing a mess and confusion !

@Apple, Please confirm when and how this is fixed.

Apple are not here. We are users as you are. Try

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409155,00.asp

Cheers

Pete

petermac87 wrote:

Apple are not here. We are users as you are. Try

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409155,00.asp

Cheers

Pete

Why did you link to a PC Magazine article about Windows 8 and Cloud Drive? Did you mean to link to an Apple bug reporting URL?

(For the record, I agree with PeterMac87 that this is a serious security hole.)

My copy and paste did not work. Apple, fix this!!!!!!!!

Oh they are not here. I almost forgot.

Yes, try their feedback page instead.

Cheers

Pete

petermac87, could you post the link to the feedback page - new here and don't know my way around yet, but feel this is quite an important issue! Thanks

Here is the main Feedback page. http://www.apple.com/feedback/

There isn't a category for Finder specifically, just use the Mac OS X feedback page.

I believe this is the same issue described here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5757550 (i am also experiencing this)

As i said on that thread, i reset user account permissions via instructions here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5275515?answerId=22860829022#22860829022 . Then i rebuilt the Spotlight index (this had not worked on its own). After doing both of these things, in that order (reset perms, then rebuild index), the issue went away. Unfortunately now it's back, about a week or so later.

I have left feedback with Apple, for what it's worth. You'd think they would take seriously an issue of privacy.

CORRECTION to my previous post. The problem only came back because i made a mistake. I believe i have resolved this by following these steps, in order:

1. Reset user account permissions per these instructions: http://macs.about.com/od/Troubleshooting/qt/Mac-Troubleshooting-Reset-User-Accou nt-Permissions.htm (couldn't find any docs from Apple on this).

2. Rebuild Spotlight indexing per these instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409 .

This seems to have fixed it completely, for me. The mistake i made was creating a new folder with incorrect permissions - that was what caused the issue to come back. If you are working within Documents (or Desktop, or any of those default folders) then the steps above should work (or did for me at least).

Hope that helps.