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Sierra root login no password

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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Apple have just issued a patch. Everyone should check their Software Update. No restart necessary.

    This sort of sloppiness is what happens when you have unnecessary annual OS upgrades that create more bugs than they fix.


  • #3
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Its not really a bug is it.
    Someone has just enabled the root user with no password.


  • #4
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Its not really a bug is it.
    Someone has just enabled the root user with no password.

    Not someone. Apple. Apple accidentally enabled the root user (which should be disabled by default) without a password on High Sierra. Definitely a bug and a very serious one at that.


  • #5
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Not someone. Apple. Apple accidentally enabled the root user (which should be disabled by default) without a password on High Sierra. Definitely a bug and a very serious one at that.

    Ok. Wasnt aware it was a update specific problem.


  • #6
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,431 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    How can this sort of bug manage to make it through an entire beta-test cycle and full release without being picked up?

    Shoddy from Apple. Very shoddy.


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  • #7
    server down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭server down


    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    How can this sort of bug manage to make it through an entire beta-test cycle and full release without being picked up?

    Shoddy from Apple. Very shoddy.

    Because nobody assumed that the root user with no password would work. Not even most of the external beta testers.


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