MacOS High Sierra Users: Change Root Password Now
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:34:22 +0000
A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as the all-powerful “root” user without supplying a password. Fortunately, there is a simple fix for this until Apple patches this inexplicable bug: Change the root account’s password now.
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