[lug] Mac unix root account and /etc/hosts

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Jun 6 23:25:03 MDT 2008


On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:05 PM, David Howland wrote:

> If all else fails Apple+S during boot will kick you into single user  
> mode.


... which if they haven't hardened the box, will not require a password.

http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/

(A little reverse-engineering of Chapter 4 of the Leopard doc, or  
whatever chapter of whatever version they're on.  To find out what  
version they're on, Apple menu (top left), then "About this Mac".)

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Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com






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