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Authored by: ceugene on Oct 17, '01 03:16:59AM

I just found out about this one in OS X. Open any app. Now open NetInfo Manager and leave it in the foreground. Now launch an app from the Recent Items submenu in the Apple Menu. It will be run as root.

It seems that the Apple Menu is wide open in any app run as root, not just NetInfo Manager...For example, once you open Terminal, quit NetInfo Manager and run TextEdit from the recent apps menu with Terminal in the foreground...you can now edit any file in OS X.

Seems to me that Apple has to separate teh Apple Menu from Applications menus.



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Not only Netinfo
Authored by: rogerm on Oct 17, '01 04:02:07AM

Seems that if you start 'disk utility' the same results can be achieved. I would guess that other apps that need to be root could be allowing this behavior.



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