Hack into any MacOS X
Early this week, I finally went and purchased Leopard to upgrade my Mac Mini and start running the same MacOS version on all computers I use. Everything was going good until the automated system reboot. Somehow, on the login prompt, my root access wasn’t being authorized anymore.
A simple search quickly revealed I wasn’t the only one that ran into this kind of issue, every Mac user that had a password of 8 characters and more faced the same problem. But now what’s the solution when your root password is a long one?
You will be relieved to hear that Apple’s software engineers already thought of that. Actually, I don’t know how much thought was put into it, but there is a solution available. The only problem is that this same solution can be used by anyone on a computer running MacOS X (haven’t tried older versions) to gain root access.
I’ll let you judge for yourselves.
Back from a long break…
Wow - my last post was on December 6th, over 5 months ago! Having to write after all this time makes me feel like it was the first post ever… Where to start? Nowhere.
I can see that things have been moving pretty quickly in the CakePHP world: CakePHP 1.2 Beta, 1st CakeFest (damn, I missed that!) and last but not least, the Cookbook.
My highlights of the past 5 months:
- Moved back to Montreal
- Migrated from WinXP to Vista (very short) to Mac OS X
- Massive workstation upgrade
- Took a loooong break from work
- Hired new staff
Some of the big changes to expect on the blog:
- Moving soon to its own domain
- Mike will start blogging in the coming weeks (my latest recruit on the development team)
- Getting a facelift sooner than later
I’ll leave it at that for the moment… After all, it’s just to say am back 
