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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:00PM (#15802761)
The first time I tried it, it just worked. I'm certain I've used root before. On the GUI portion it works with no password, but on the terminal it does not let me login as root without a password. Some weird OS magic must be going on there?
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by tomsmeding on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:31PM (#15803030)
AFAIK usually sudo doesn't let you enter an empty string as a password, even when the actual password is empty. So that is what you might be experiencing.
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