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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: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:29:49 +0100

On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 11:27 am, Stiphane Sudre wrote:

- Any user (without admin privilege) can become root as long as he has an account on the computer and the root account is enabled.

No, that's not true. Admin users can because by default they're in the sudoers file. Non-admin users shouldn't be able to, but there is a rather major security hole in OS X that has been discussed here.

-- Finlay


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