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Apple’s newest bug allows you to sign in to any macOS High Sierra account with just the username…

by JonLuca De Caro1mNovember 28th, 2017
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The bug, found by Lemi Ergin, was originally posted to twitter on Tuesday morning. To replicate the bug, simply navigate to any prompt that requires elevated authentication, and replace the username with “root”, while leaving the password blank. Then repeatedly click unlock until it lets you through.

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