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Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)?

Subject: Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)?
From: paul w brown <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:51:13 -0400

you don't have to go through sll thst ... and the question was more than answered several times ... all you do is open a temr and type:

sudo password root

you type the password of your admin account that you are logged in as ... and type the password that you want root to be

--On Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:18 PM -0700 "Anthony D. Saxton" <email@hidden> wrote:

I was surprised that Tony never got a real answer to this. The
Administrator account givin at the time of installation is *NOT* the root
account and does not have all the privileges of the root accout. But, yes
Tony, there *is* a root account...

To enable the root account:

1) Run the NetInfo Manager in the Utilities folder.
2) Choose Domain > Security > Authenticate. Enter the Administrator
account password.
3) Choose Domain > Security > Enable Root User.
4) Enter a new password for the Root account. Make it a good one! This is
a dangerous account for the kids to get into!

You can now login as 'root' to have your godlike privileges. Careful! You
can really do damage in this account.

Anthony D. Saxton
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