No tricks, no funny business, any mac currently running High Sierra, effectively has a blank root password and the account enabled by default.
I don't need no stinking password to create an admin user
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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!
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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