The average Mac user might forget his or her password, but they probably wouldn’t like going into the command line interface of Single User Mode. Yet, I believe this really won’t happen in practice with OS X. It is argued that Single User Mode should allow full root privileges to allow forgetful users to change their password. Now is the era of Mac OS X, and even though that old OpenStep patch won’t work for OS X, Apple could still easily release a similar patch, or better yet, a permanent fix that will be forever installed by default. Apple has known about this vulnerability for some time now and back in the days of OpenStep, a patch to that OS was released to fix this problem. ![]() There’s always the constant battle between user-friendliness and security. Mac OS X Single User Mode Root Access – CodeSamurai Mac OS X Single User Mode Root Access – CodeSamurai Forward
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