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One of my Macs is showing a root password change date of Nov 10th 2017. I can't explain that, so I'm reinstalling now. It did have sshd enabled and remotely a
by mhandley 9y ago
One of my Macs is showing a root password change date of Nov 10th 2017. I can't explain that, so I'm reinstalling now. It did have sshd enabled and remotely accessible, though I thought root login was prohibited.
If I understood correctly, this particular bug was only exploitable from the GUI and this machine hasn't been away from home, so it's likely this isn't related, but posting here, in case it's part of a bigger picture.
- marcelfahle 9y agoMy root pw passwordLastSetTime says this morning.. the fuck??
- marcelfahle 9y agoOK, I guess when doing OP's root trick, the root user gets activated/created, and that's that's when the PW gets set to empty. I guess that's where my passwordLastSetTime comes from.
- danielrangel 9y agopossibly the same timestamp here: 1510300538.767916 'Fri, 10 Nov 2017 04:55:38'
- gurkendoktor 9y agoOh wow. Is there any other explanation for this other than this having been exploited in the wild for almost three weeks? Or maybe someone just tried to log in over SSH to exploit some other weakness (something like predictable SSH passwords on jailbroken iOS devices), and happened to create the root user on your machine? Did you also have sshd running, and do you know what kind of network you were using at the time?
- haZard_OS 9y agoThis works remotely as well (although not through SSH, obviously).