In MacOS system to make all the hidden files to be visible or invisible , need to run two commands, first command is to turn on the Finder flag to allows\disallow to show all the hidden files, then the second command is to kill and restart the Finder in order to make the changes to…
It’s a great and simple security check tool to find which running process belongs to users that have never officially logged in or never got any authorization to log in. this will provide you some good idea about any hidden system resources consumed by the unofficially\unauthorized logged-in User, resources such as CPU time, Memory, Network…
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This is an example that shows how to create a Sudo user, means a Standard user with an Admin privileges, with this capabilities you will be able to perform some system changes and install software at system level(root level) from your a standard user account without the need to switch to an Admin user account…
To make \Users folder to be visible or invisible , the command must be run with a sudo privilege and when the system hidden file mode must be set to invisible(system hidden file). follow the command we need to restart the Finder (killall Finder) and then to wait few second until the Finder will be…
A simple way to get the MacOS users list, from security perspective this a simple way to recognize unauthorized and suspicion user activities # List All Users bash> dscl . -list /Users # Exclude user/s from users list bash> dscl . -list /Users | grep -vE “_|root|nobody|daemon|Guest”
