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

At 9:20 PM -0400 7/24/01, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:04:33PM -0700, Mark F. Murphy wrote:
Is there any other command line way to "disable" the root account as
easily as it was to enable it?

sudo niutil -createprop . /users/root passwd \*

Very cool.

Thank you.

So...

Enable: sudo passwd root
Disable: sudo niutil -createprop . /users/root passwd \*

Perfect.

mark

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References: 
 >Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)? (From: "Anthony D. Saxton" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)? (From: "Mark F. Murphy" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)? (From: paul w brown <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)? (From: "Mark F. Murphy" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie Question? Is there a root in Mac OSX (Darwin)? (From: "Daniel J. Luke" <email@hidden>)



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