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I havn't used my root password in a while, but i just found my self needing to kill -9 a task, and i know that i need to be root to do it. So i su'd. But i forgot my password!:mad: Im kinda of weary in getting help with this because i know that asking the question "how do i get my root password...

Hey guys, I want to remove Classic completely from my system (really low on HDD space and I have no classic apps... pure OS X) and noticed I can't do that without root access. I went to NetInfo and noticed that my root account was already enabled... but with no idea to what the password...

anyone knows how to rebuild raid on root partition on an xserve running osx server?

I've got what seems to be an extra folder named Desktop at the root level of my startup HD on my Tibook. Not to be confused with the OS9 Desktop alias. On another machine on which I just re-installed 10.2.6, there is no such folder. I've had the Tibook since Dec., and the folder is dated...

Hi there, Now.. I am not sure if this is possible, but I would be really happy if this is. You know when you "enable root user" in your OSX, your OSX login window will now display one more login account called "Others". Well the icon for this "Others" Account is a ugly blue background...

I have this matrix mod for the Max Payne game, and to install it, they say you must put the file into the root level of the Max Payne folder. Is there an easy way to do this? I know pretty much nothing about using the terminal, but I know I could really screw up my computer if I do something...

Is the root crontab empty by default after a fresh Jag install (+update to 10.2.4)? Mine is empty and I think I may have wiped it out by accident.

I've got MySQl and PHP running on jaguar.4 When I use phpmyadmin I get this error: Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really...

Hello, I just got a new mac and created a account for myself. It shows that i am the admin. Somehow, I want root prviledges on the machine to edit some config files. How do i get this?is the root password the same as my account passowrd for which i am the admin? thanks.

I've got a problem when a user logs in to a workstation via Netinfo/LDAP from an Xserve, the workstations owner for the hard disk and desktop are set to the user. This means that the user can then move or delete any files from the root level of the drive. Can anybody help? I think this must...

Hello, I am on a G4. I am working with Dreamweaver, and I have just installed Complete php4. In Dreamweaver, as I am going through the tutorials, it says that after you have installed and tested your application server, to create a root folder. It goes into great detail about where to put this...

I logged in as root (yes root, not admin) and for some reason thought changing Group priviledges in my Hard Drive Get Info window to None would increase already tight security, bad move! now when i boot: >the mac os X boot window comes up with the progress bar, but without the...

Hi all, This question has kind of been asked here before, but I've tried the solutions suggested, and it's not working. Maybe this is slightly different. I have my hard drive partitioned in two, a partition for the os, and one for everything else. I want to set the Apache DocumentRoot to a...

Does anyone else ahve this problem??? Attatched, its the way it comes out every time...my next post will show how i WANT IT. every time i customize it to the next picture, close the window, and reopen, it jumps back to the first picture.

I have two domain names that I want to point at the same document root. Basically I want this site to work exactly the same regardless of which domain name you entered using. So I have the site set up as domain #1 and a virtual set up with domain #2. Domain #1 has these settings:ServerName...

There have been a few times when I wanted to copy files/folders into a directory with root-write only access (world read/exec). Is there any way to do that from the finder? I usually have to switch into the terminal, but I don't like doing that. Thanks emd

I was just sent a flipviewer beta version for OS X. In the instructions it said to open the downloaded software in my root folder. I don't no where the root folder is and can't find it with the search tool. Any help? Thanks:confused:

I've install XWindows X11 4.2.0, install XFree86_4.2.0.1-10.2 and XFree86_4.2.1.1. I try to open XDarwin, the X mouse apper and after of 15 secondsm it desapear, the only way I find to start it is to log as root user but I want to use it on my user.

I was doing a ditto to copy my ~/ to an external volume as a backup, and it got to the following file and stopped, and only ended up copying about half of my user folder, and none of my ~/Movies ~/Music (which are my two most iportant!) So I decided to clean up the backup folder to start...

Hello everybody, here my questions: question 1: How can I loggin has "root user"? I question 2: How can view my local website on the apache server with http://local/... It's working with http://127.0.0.1/... Why? Thanks! fg