CVE-1999-1393 Information

Description

Control Panel \Password Security\ option for Apple Powerbooks allows attackers with physical access to the machine to bypass the security by booting it with an emergency startup disk and using a disk editor to modify the on/off toggle or password in the aaaaaaaAPWD file which is normally inaccessible.

Reference

http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532