Re: MS Windows Screensaver Privilege Escalation

[Andrew Farmer <andfarm () teknovis com>]

On 30 Nov 2004, at 20:50, Andrew Kennedy wrote:
> in fact, under OSX, there is by default no 'root' user -

False. A root user always exists, but generally does not have a 
password set.

> it must be specially asked for and created, as part of the 'BSD' 
> package.

False. The BSD package just installs command-line tools.

> i won't say apple have gotten things perfect, for example the 
> 'Applications'
> folder is writeable by any user

False. Only administrators can write to /Applications.

(The permissions are set to 775; the ownership is set to root:admin.)

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