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In a similar flavour, on older versions of Mac OSX, you could touch an initial setup file and reboot which would start the out of box experience and let you mak
by PebblesHD 2y ago
In a similar flavour, on older versions of Mac OSX, you could touch an initial setup file and reboot which would start the out of box experience and let you make a new admin user if you ever found yourself locked out of one for some reason. Modern disk encryption put an obvious stop to that…
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoThe old /var/db/.AppleSetupDone trick. At least as of 2-3 years ago this still worked. I _think_ they've renamed the file since; I haven't used this in a long time. If I recall correctly that file became SIP protected so had to disable SIP to delete/create it. Even with FileVault2/FDE, it was still possible as long as you could unlock the drive. Now being able to authenticate as an administrator privileged user is (in some scenarios) a direct proxy for demonstrating ownership to recoveryOS, blocking access to the Utilities menu. It's a clever strategy from a security perspective. Mixed, mostly past, tense because I'm not sure if this still works in 2024.