Mac OS X comes with a guest account enabled by default. Are there any security risks with leaving it enabled? Are there reasons to disable the account?
MacOS – Are there any security risks with leaving guest account enabled
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Best Answer
I'm not a security expert, but just browsing the web, I came up with this:
Following up on the /tmp directory vulnerability, I found this:
If you want some examples of how a malicious hacker could use the /tmp directory to their advantage, here you go:
Once again, I don't know much about security so some of the info from the quotes might be incorrect.
Most of that was going over the vulnerabilities of the /tmp directory, but in the first quote it's implied that there are other System directories that could potentially be accessed from the Guest account. However, unless you have top secret government information, I doubt that it's too much of a risk to enable the guest account.