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okay so i had to reinstall a while ago after messing with linux partitions and screwing over something or other. Anyways I reinstalled and was happily wolfensteining along until i needed to su in order to build an irc bot.. i went to netinfo and authenticated... then i went to enable root...

I've recently created a user account but now I want to delete it. I've been to the control panel and deleted the user but when I browse the Users folder the user account and all it's folders with all the documents are still there :( The only thing thats changed is that the finder has...

in 10.0.4 i could open an app as root with terminal with open command. (after su) in 10.1 it does not work anymore. how can i do it? thanks in advance!

I am running my machine mainly as root, but I seldom login as other users for different tasks plus my GF uses my Mac sometimes, so using automatic login is no option for me. The problem is, I hate it that I always have to use the "Other Users" button to use my "standard" root user account...

You're probably tired of the endless questions about root.. But I've got one more.. I have read several post about root and how and why you shouldn't enable it. And I've got the point; security. But let's say you enabled root, and logged in a couple of times. Later you decided to login as...

Hello, Didn't know where else to post this and I can't post to the how to's but I'm sure someone else will do this eventually. :) You have the password to an account with administrative access to do this and it must be able to su as root. Go To Utilities NetInfo Manager and edit root You...

I attempted today to login as root; taking into account that I have not logged in before as root, I launched Net info in order to enable "root". After I typed in my password and selected "enable root user" in the Domain menu: I was surprised to get Netinfo Error which states "NetInfo write...

Hi to all, yes i know it is not very good to login as root to change anything but sorry i know what i do. i work my most time with Unixsystems and so i think i know which file is not good to delet. but i have a little problem. i want (it is urgent) to login as root via ftp. how can i setup...

There is quite a bit of discussion going back and forth on whether or not it is a good idea to create a root user account with FULL powers and permissions. I'd like to start a thread on this topic (as well as how to create a 'root' user account). Let's see where it takes us . . . (it might...

After a total system crash due to an attempted switch back to mac OS 9.2.2 to scan something (points to another member in family and notes the program can be run through classic mode) , I had to install Mac OS 10.0, then update back to 10.1 and then finally to 10.1.2. bla... The next thing I...

How can I do this? If anyone knows please let me know. Thanks :)

I just logged in as root to replace a file in the system/library/extensions folder, then logged back out. Now I get the following error window: Error Domain / has no root account. You must log in on the computer named localhost/local (where the master islocated) to make changes...

Can someone tell me how can i login as a root administrator? thanxs

I am new to this "user" stuff in OS X. Is there a level between root user and admin? If there is, how do I change a user to that level? thanks.

I just recieved my apple powerbook 667, and I can't seem to access the root account on the computer. The account I created at the begining of startup is an adminstrator account, but it's not the root, and so doesn't have all privledges. What's the password to the root or superuser? When I...

In our office we have a boat load of machines that need to have OSX installed and need to be custom configured. I'm in the process of writting a shell script that configures our machines. I was wondering if anyone knew the exact commands to activate, authenticate root access through netinfo...

ok...I am new to UNIX and everywhere I read....be careful of what you do while logged in as root. I fear I may have done something bad and I need help. I had setup a guest account on Mac os 10.1. They had created a file on my 10.1 partition that they would not be using any more. I tried to...

Hello, I'm a "newbie" to terminal app and UNIX shell on MacOS: Yesterday I wanted to install some software on my mac and took the terminal app to do this. I had set a root password (not the admin password...) in the net panel, which has been accepted by the system. Although I had done this...

OK, i know that this is a big security issue. but i want to enable the root access over telnet. i think i already did it on 10.0, but i can t remember. under linux, this option is in /etc/security, and in solaris it s in /etc/default/login. but in X.1 i find it nowhere. let me worry...

Havnt used the root login since clean-installing 10.1; needed to do so recently, but I couldnt activate it! Went in NetInfo, autentified myself without problem, but when I selected the "activate root user" menu item, I got more or less the following error: NetInfo Error NetInfo writing...