Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh...
by LexGray on Sunday September 29, 2019 @01:28PM
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In a similar way for macOS enabling the offline root user has been under Network Account Server > Directory Utility forever. Microsoft is not alone in their logic here.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh...
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:46PM
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In a similar way for macOS enabling the offline root user has been under Network Account Server > Directory Utility forever.
Isn't that more for security reasons? Apple doesn't want users enabling the root account unless they know what they're doing, so they make it hard to find. (And, really—coming from someone who runs with SIP turned off—there's very little reason to enable that account.)