Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password
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@pleegwat said in Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password:
@ben_lubar
I have not rebooted a mac system I owned for the last 33 and a half years.My Mac crashes when you tell it to reboot or shutdown, so despite that indeed it has been booted many a time, it has never rebooted.
Do I win ?
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@anonymous234 said in Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password:
@ben_lubar idea: "UptimeOS": an OS designed to maximize uptime for the people who care about that.
All it would do is boot, stop the hard drives (because mechanical components can go bad) and then do nothing forever. Guaranteed no reboots. Install it in an old laptop and let it run forever.
Sounds like a renamed, old version of MS-DOS to me.
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@cabrito said in Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password:
oops! MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's "Root" Bug Patch
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@kt_ said in Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password:
That’s some serious face-palm material. Add to that the buginess of iOS 11 and watchOS and hey! Apple looks really bad this fall, at least software-wise.
Interesting if and when it’s gonna end…
By iDiots, for iDiots.
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@zecc I used to work at a place that had an internal chatroom. At least once a week, someone would post their password thinking they were unlocking their PC. almost always something like Hunter12, as the 1 month password expiry meant everyone did the whole "same password with an incrementing number" system.
There'd always be a reply along the lines of "Wow, you've worked here 12 months?"
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@zecc said in Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password:
How in the fuck does the lock screen not swallow all input??? Am I reading this incorrectly?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Mac OS High Sierra: how to switch to root without a password:
How in the fuck does the lock screen not swallow all input??? Am I reading this incorrectly?
I’ve seen similar behaviour with fast user-switching for several OS X/macOS versions, but only if QuickTime has the focus when the switch is made. If any other application had, then the password field receives keypresses, but if QuickTime was the front-most application, for some reason it gets them instead (or at least, I assume it does).