![]() Open up a Terminal (in the Spotlight search box just type “terminal”) and type “sudo passwd root”. How does one change the root password? It’s simple enough. Type “root” with no password, and simply try that several times until the system relents and lets you in. Are you aware of it Sierra users should be able to replicate the exploit by accessing System Preferences, then Users & Groups, and then click the lock to make changes. Anyone can login as “root” with empty password after clicking on login button several times. Click Updates in the App Store toolbar, then use the Update buttons to download and install any updates listed.įor better or worse, this glaring vulnerability was first disclosed today on Twitter by Turkish software developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, who unleashed his findings onto the Internet with a tweet to we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. ![]() The update is available via the App Store app on your Mac. ![]() ET: Apple has released a patch for this flaw. Fortunately, there is a simple fix for this until Apple patches this inexplicable bug: Change the root account’s password now. A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra - Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system - allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as the all-powerful “root” user without supplying a password.
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