MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch

Re:MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch by veidr on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:17PM (#15829046)

I hear you, and I have the same problem (hi, Dad) but it is worth noting that this latest re-occurrence of the bug happens only to machines that were not up-to-date when they downloaded (or rather, when Apple remotely installed) the security patch.

If a machine had 10.13.1 (the latest version of macOS) installed when that happened, it is OK.

If the machine had 10.13.0 installed when Apple installed the patch, however, then the update to 10.13.1 will bring the bug back, and necessitate both re-installation of the security patch and a reboot before the machine is again safe from the "root access for anybody who can spell 'root'" bug.

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Re:MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch by saghm on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:35AM (#15830571)

Unfortunately, this is probably not going to convince non-stop technical people who already are hesitant to listen to sound advice about updating; at least the people like this who I know will just hear "the update broke things" and take that as confirmation of what they already believed.

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