Enabling the root user on a Mac grants you the highest level of access to the system, allowing you to perform tasks that require deep system modifications. However, this powerful account is disabled ...

Even though the root account is "disabled" by default in OS X, you will still see many system processes running under this account when you open Activity Monitor, which might be confusing to some ...

Im doing some installation experimentation of Tiger on an external disk. My aim is to set up another system to run a single application under specific conditions nothing else, application is Logic Pro ...

The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

[Update: Apple quickly released Security Update 2017-001 to fix this bug. Read our current coverage at “Apple Pushes Updates to Block the Root Vulnerability Bug” (30 November 2017).] You can expect a ...

A newly discovered bug in macOS High Sierra enables the root superuser on a Mac with a blank password and no security check, essentially giving anyone full access to your Mac. Apple is likely already ...

Mac OS X provides the ability for users to have separate accounts with files that are protected from other users. This means that unless you have a root user account, you can't see, access or delete ...

Earlier this afternoon on Twitter, a developer posted a screenshot and reported it was possible to obtain root access on Apple’s High Sierra without a password. [Note: Apple has released a fix for ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

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