You now get a large, clear search box right in the middle of desktop, rather than just the small box in the top-right corner.
It now has the Today View that debuted in iOS 7, and it adds third-party app support as well.Īpple has gone to town on improving Spotlight search in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. We like this a lot.Įxtended Notifications Center, Today View and 3rd Party app supportĪ fairly basic version of Notifications Center has been part of Mac OS for a while, but Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite brings a whole load of improvements. All this does is turn the normally light coloured interface into a darker, less obtrusive shades of grey and black, making it easier on your eyes in dark environments. It’s just a small thing, but one of the things we liked most about the new Mac OS X 10.10 design was the brief glimpse of a dark mode. This is most obvious in the dock icons, where the icons and semi-transparent look is is very similar to the app tray on iOS.
Icons and fonts look very similar to iOS, and there’s a similar emphasis on translucency and ‘levels’ within the OS. Mac OS X 10.10 is arguably the most dramatic visual overhaul of Mac OS in ages. Let’s deal with this one first, because it was very obvious. Yes, it does look like iOS and that’s just fine
Now Apple’s revealed the details officially, we can finally stop speculating and look at what’s new in Mac OS X 10.10. Sure, we kind of knew there would be a greater iOS influence on the design, but anyone could guess that.
Once again, if you keep up with Cupertino and install (or buy) the very latest stuff, you'll be rewarded.We’ve known for a while that Apple would be announcing a new version of Mac OS X at WWDC 2014, but precise details haven’t been easy to find. If you upgrade to the El Capitan beta (OS X 10.11), you'll be free from the vulnerability as Apple has already fixed it in that preview beta. This flaw is present in the latest version of Yosemite, OS X 10.10.4, and the beta, version 10.10.5. From there you can do anything you like modify documents, install malware, create new users, and so on.
Finally, sudo -s is executed to open an interactive command-line shell, which will have root-level privileges for your user account thanks to the update to the sudoers file. That line tells OS X that your user account is allowed to gain root privileges without a password.Ī privileged program – the root-owned set-uid executable newgrp – is run to provide the root-level access to the sudoers file. It then outputs that line to the file specified by DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE, which in this case is the list of users who can gain root-level privileges: /etc/sudoers. These shell commands run whoami to output your username (eg: vulture) and then tacks "ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" on the end to form a line like: Here's the titchy root-level privilege-escalation exploit, devised yesterday by Redditor Numinit:Įcho 'echo "$(whoami) ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >&3' | DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE=/etc/sudoers newgrp sudo -s # via reddit: numinit (shorter)