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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: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:16:05 +0200

On mercredi, octobre 17, 2001, at 12:55 , John C. Randolph wrote:


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.

I was told about this this morning.

Login as a guest user
Launch Terminal
Quit Terminal
Launch NetInfo Manager
Select in the Recent items menu: Terminal

You're root. (I just had a fear while writing this that the account I used was an admin one, but I just checked and it's not an admin account)

I have not had the possibility to check what happens if you had not enabled the root account via NetInfo or sudo passwd root


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