That means your passwords are effectively useless. So far so good, but likewise, just as with the old DVD install discs, you - or anyone else - can also reset the user account passwords from the Recovery partition. In the event that the OS goes bottoms up and needs to be recovered or re-installed, you just restart your computer holding down the ‘command’ and ‘r’ keys to access the Recovery partition. The solution was to install a Recovery partition on the same disk as the operating system itself.
CLONING OS X LION HOW TO
With Lion having no install disc, Apple had to find an answer as to how to provide the recovery option. That made your Mac a little safer ( though not entirely safe) so long as your disc was kept somewhere physically different from your computer. From that, you could restore the OS and reset your passwords. In the past, if your OS went bad and needed to be recovered, or you forgot your admin passwords, the simplest answer was to insert your install disk. Among the 250 changes vaunted about Lion over its predecessor, Snow Leopard, there is one that is widely known but whose implications are rarely pointed out: you download the OS rather than install it from a disc. How is this possible, you may ask? First, a little history. The same trick can help kids easily get round restrictions applied through OS X’s ‘Parental Controls’ feature. That means anyone with a basic knowledge of Mac and Lion can start up your mac and reset your passwords, thereby accessing your user accounts and all your personal data. Security in OS X Lion is a big problem that not many people are aware of, and here’s why: your Lion computer contains the install/recovery disk on the internal drive.
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