FYI Interesting caveat regarding the Install CD.
I recently changed some passwords on machines using the Install CD. If
I changed the root password it automatically enabled it and wouldn't
auto boot into the admin single user mode as it was set to. If I left
the root password alone and only changed the admin password, root
remained disabled.
I certainly wouldn't recommend this as a routine method of enabling
root. This may not even be germane to the issue but I was surprised by
the result and since the Install CD was mentioned I thought I might
chime in.
Ed Crelin
MacInsight, Inc.
On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Minot Opdyke wrote:
I think what he wants to do is enable root, not change the password
and he wants to do it without logging in and using NetInfo to enable.
Minott Opdyke
SCT
Rose Elementary School
432-2495
>>>"John C. Welch" <email@hidden> 04/26/05 9:30 am >>>
On 4/26/05 10:51, "Kok-Yong Tan" <email@hidden> wrote:
>At 16:32 +0100 4/26/05, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>>On 4/26/05, Kok-Yong Tan <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>Outside of NetInfo Manager, how many other ways can root access be
>>>enabled and disabled on a client system without booting into
>>>single-user mode and then monkeying with the NetInfo database via
CLI?
>>
>>I think you can do it by booting off an install CD, too.
>>
>>-- Finlay
>
>Hmmm...interesting. I thought you could only *RESET* an already
existing user
>password that way, not enable root.
You can change the password for any existing user account, including
root.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
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