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.
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