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What a ridiculous bug, isn't it? Somebody at Apple should feel quite stupid right now...
That's too soft to call this horribly horrendously formidable bug.
Nope, their sales will only increase.
It seems High Sierra bug, not Sierra bug, right?
That is what it says, "word for word".
Yes, it is a high sierra bug. Since I come from Linux before Mac, I literally set a root pass on day 1 for root. Tried it on my machine, and it didn't work due to me setting the root pass ages ago :P
For Linux users, this is laughable, however, for a microsoft/apple user, having a blank administrator password is not so unheard of.
Also, having shadow high privilege accounts, some of them well hidden, is also not unheard of.
I do not think many apple fans (outside of this forum, of course) know about the Unix "roots" of their OS. It is just some kind of a different windows, it has a different arrangement of the interface, but essentially, they will still point and click to lauch their programs.
A neighbour of mine bought a Mac as he is running a karaoke show and has a lot of video footage (4k and stuff, pro cameras, etc) and audio to edit for customers and heard Mac is better at AV, so came to me to install windows on it... It took some time to explain he will have to live with it if he wants the extra (real or not) features for AV.
Edit: I just saw I omitted the "High" from High Sierra and the "high" person who could do this blunder... I can no longer edit, please some mod :P
Great job, Apple. Next time make sure to make it remotely exploitable... more fun that way.
Wow.. Apple was actually quick with a patch:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315
Yeap, such a complex problem it takes months for Microsoft to fix...
sed s/::/:!:/g is difficult
Crazy oversight however as soon as I read about it I went to updates and there it was, a patch ready to install. SHould not have happened but have to admit they were quick to get a patch out there.
Yep, apples forever.