Hey, probably not a good idea do this on your Mac OS X machine:

sudo mv Security.framework Security-1046.framework

Good lord, every process uses PAM, which links to Security, so basically you won’t be able to launch or use any programs, even command line. In particular you can’t use “sudo mv” to fix what you broke because sudo, of course, uses Security.framework for authentication. It’s pretty hilarious, kind of like messing with ld.so or libc.so on a Linux system.

To fix it, reboot, hold down command-S to boot into single user mode, follow the directions to make the filesystem read/write, and then use “mv” to fix it.

I’ve been dorking around more with /System days, just like I did with Linux lo those many years ago (well, it was /lib on Linux). I need to start watching TV or something.

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