Re: Mac OS X setuid root security hole

From: Florian Kohl (flohat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 11:50:29 PDT

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>  - Open up the terminal application
>  - Quit the terminal application
>  - Open up NetInfo Manager (leave it in the foreground)
>  - Open up the Terminal application form the "Recent Items" list in 
>the Apple Menu.
>
>You should now be logged in as root!



confirmed on osx 10.1 with all available updates (none)

[malaria:~] floh% uname -a
Darwin malaria 1.4 Darwin Kernel Version 1.4: Sun Sep  9 15:39:59 PDT 
2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc


cheers floh

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