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Can you talk about how to correctly disable the root account if someone did try it?
by kreeWall 9y ago
Can you talk about how to correctly disable the root account if someone did try it?
- martin-adams 9y agoIf you're wondering how to disable it, the menu option can be found here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204012 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204012
- mediocrejoker 9y agoAccording to another comment thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15802113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15802113 disabling from the GUI re-enabled the bug. On my laptop I was able to exploit the bug from the local GUI and then disable it from happening (as far as I can tell) by changing the root password from the shell with sudo passwd root and then disabling the root user altogether with dsenableroot -d