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Get root on an OS X 10.10 Mac: The exploit is so trivial it fits in a tweet

Anonymous Coward
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Re: The real culprit

> That said, something like visudo (if installed) would get around that ;-(

visudo is not setuid.

It's better in this case for visudo to run with the permissions of the invoker, rather than itself be granted permissions to edit /etc/sudoers.

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