I don't need no stinking password to create an admin user

No tricks, no funny business, any mac currently running High Sierra, effectively has a blank root password and the account enabled by default.

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That’s…well, hard to know what to say…

This is nuts…

Apple are going for the windows approach to security.

Microsoft have a copyright on a open root , this is going to end in court.

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So ridiculous!

Thanks for the heads up - just fixed mine this morning - heres the link to the instructions from Apple if you haven’t already!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012

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How that got out the door, I don’t know.

But note, affected Macs should have auto-patched overnight: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315