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

At 12:18 PM -0700 7/24/01, Anthony D. Saxton 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!

It seemed to me it was answered... and the conclusion was more simple.

sudo passwd root

The only thing I was unclear on was disabling root in a similar fashion.

I thought someone suggested setting root's password to '*', but that didn't seem to work for me... passwd wants minimum of 5 chars.

mark

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