I found myself utterly astonished last night upon discovering the weakness of my macintosh’s security system. The problem started a couple of days ago when safari managed to crash my mac entirely. I tried resetting the ‘PRAM’ and ‘Safe Mode’ but I couldn’t login.
Rather I could login but the screen would go blue and then return to the login screen again. Two days later I continued to solve the problem under the assumption that the computer was fine but simply had a corruption in my admin account. Thus I thought to myself, how can I make an admin account without a disk? I had become familiar with single user mode or hitting command + s right after hearing the start up tone. Thus I searched for a way to enter the program a mac has for the first time you run it. This program basically just makes a new admin. I did this by entering these three lines followed by return after each.
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
After this is done you may login to this new admin and access all files in fellow admin accounts and even change their password. Imagine someone could just steal your computer and with a few simple lines access all you have got.
