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  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:03:48 -0600

Entity Nigel Smith spoke thus:

> It's worse than that...
>
> *Any* user with an administrator account can, with a bit of know-how, change
> the root password to whatever they want -- without knowing the original.
>
> Moral -- don't give anyone you wouldn't trust with root access to a machine
> admin access to that machine...

It's even worse that THAT!

This is a startup script made to be installed by booting from disk or
firewire:

http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Mac/Hacker.txt

As you can see, this would report all your stuff to the "hacker" user
without you ever knowing it.

-- Gnarlie
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