On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 09:53 , rotaiv wrote: > I can't recall if I have seen this on BugTraq so forgive me if this is > an old issue. > > Try these steps on an OS X machine (not logged in as root) > > - Open up the terminal application > - Quit the terminal application > - Open up NetInfo Manager (leave it in the foreground) > - Open up the Terminal application form the "Recent Items" list in the > Apple Menu. > > You should now be logged in as root! This also affects items in the Services menu (want a root text editor?), which suggests the entire menu handler runs as the effective userid. Chris
