Apple just released a patch for this. Guess it is time to install this… :-)
On 29 Nov 2017, at 16:03, John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/11/28/2135236/macos-high-sierra-bug-allows-...
The title pretty much says it all - you can login as root with no password, or elevate to root privileges to make system changes with no password, on all the current MacOS High Sierra releases. There is a work around (I think you simply have to enable the root account, with a password), but man.. wtf !?
It shouldn't affect sshd - PermitRootLogin defaults to no. However it does appear to affect VNC / Apple Remote Desktop connections. LOL! How does something like this get past QA ?
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