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Recently added Apple Tech Info Library articles describe "kernel panics" in UNIX-style operating systems, logging a kernel panic and providing it to Apple in order to help solve bugs and the steps necessary to restore a lost root password.
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I'm fairly inexperience with *nix systems but the ability to change the root password without verification seems like a security issue. Can anyone comment on this?
Here's hoping no one ever sees one on OS X. I haven't seen any panics since Public Beta. Go Apple go!
I'm fairly inexperience with *nix systems but the ability to change the root password without verification seems like a security issue. Can anyone comment on this?
It's a security issue if it can be done from anyplace besides the console. You must reboot the machine into single user mode. Doing that requires you to be at the physical console of the computer to press command-s after the boot chime.
If you can get physical access to a machine, in almost all instances it can be cracked. For Apple to pretend, or attempt to make impossible would be foolish. The benefits of allowing a user, a non-UNIX expert, to reset their password in a straightforward manner is required in an OS as mainstream and as "easy to use" as Mac OSX is.
A hacker will be able to bypass the root password if they have physical access to the machine regardless of whether this ability exists or not. Apple knows that, which is why they tell people ( Non expert people) how.
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I'm fairly inexperience with *nix systems but the ability to change the root password without verification seems like a security issue. Can anyone comment on this?