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That last sentence [0] suggests that the patch will disable every single activated root account. [0] > If you require the root user account on your Mac, you w
by myfonj 9y ago
That last sentence [0] suggests that the patch will disable every single activated root account.
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> If you require the root user account on your Mac, you will need to re-enable the root user and change the root user's password after this update.
- londons_explore 9y agoWhich could lock some users out permanently if the root user was the only user they knew the password to.
- geofft 9y agoIt's impossible to have full-disk encryption with that config, right? (i.e., does FileVault work for the root user?) If you can get in from an install CD, you can reset passwords as needed. If I were writing this patch, I'd probably check to see if the root user's password was indeed blank, but given that use of the root account only is extremely unsupported I cannot get too upset about Apple breaking that use case as long as you can get back in.
- comex 9y agoThe issue wasn’t actually specific to a blank password. You could try to log in as root using any password, and as long as root had never had a password set, it would fail but set root’s password to whatever you entered.