Ask HN: Huge security hole for Mac OS X? Or am I missing something...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4876606
by jheriko • 14 years ago
1 3 14 years ago

Isn't this a huge security hole for Macs?

http://www.rit.edu/its/services/desktop_support/mac/xforcenewadminacccount.html

Strikes me as a way of implementing the first run steps that I never would have chosen as being terribly easy to uncover and exploit... also it feels sloppy for leaving files lying around.

Not to mention this is easily discoverable through Google...

A few minutes thought leads me to a multitude of more secure solutions, and I find it hard to believe the Apple programmers are really so lazy/naive as to do this without knowing it would be fine...

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