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

At 3:10 PM +0100 7/25/01, Norman Gray wrote:
So much for traditional Unix. If I understand correctly, this is what
is being suggested by some of the other contributions in this thread,
when they talk of making `*' entries in the nidb, which replaces the
passwd file. If these are simply concerned with changing the account
password then (unless MacOS X is even more different than I'm coming to
understand) they're not talking about disabling the account.

I tested:

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

When you go back into NetInfo after authenticating, it shows the root account as *disabled*.

So it looks like it does the trick.... or at least NetInfo presents it as such.

mark

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