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MarkJFine
8 years agoProfessor
OMG
Nothing to see here, just logging in as ROOT WITH NO PASSWORD... https://www.wired.com/story/macos-high-sierra-hack-root Incidentally, this is only with macOS. Opening a terminal and trying to su...
GabeU
8 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
OMG is right! Go Mac!!!!
That's crazy!
- MarkJFine8 years agoProfessor
I just tried to unlock my preferences using the root trick... didn't work. I will look real foolish if this is a hoax. lol
- GabeU8 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
MarkJFine wrote:I just tried to unlock my preferences using the root trick... didn't work. I will look real foolish if this is a hoax. lol
There's a plethora of articles about it. If it's a hoax, it's a HUGE one.
- maratsade8 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
MacRumors says to do this to fix it while Apple works on a fix. iMore says the same thing, and links to an Apple (the article mentions, among other things, that the root user is disabled by default -- could this be why MarkJFine couldn't access it?)
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