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Slightly OT: root passwords
Authored by: zzen on May 03, '05 07:24:52AM

Following the link to the hint about the 10.3 password analyzer, I was surprised how many people were bragging about their root password being oh-so-much-more secure then their regular user (admin I suppose) password.

I wanted to warn everybody, that the admin account (AA) password in Mac OS X is much more critical then the root password. With AA password, you can easily do anything root can - including changing the root password. But moreover, with AA, you can log-in remotely via SSH (if it's enabled in Sharing) - which you cannot do with root. Generally, root is much better protected against remote (mis)use...



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