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Re: What happens to the AppKit Framework when an user logout ?
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Re: What happens to the AppKit Framework when an user logout ?


  • Subject: Re: What happens to the AppKit Framework when an user logout ?
  • From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 03:55:19 -0700

On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 03:27 AM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
[snip]

When it comes to security on Mac OS X...

- The name of the last login user is always displayed in the login window.
- Any user (without admin privilege) can become root as long as he has an account on the computer and the root account is enabled.

Are you sure of that? I thought a user had to be a member of the wheel group to do that.

-jcr

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.


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