[ale] OT: how to reset root pw on os X

Jason Fritcher jkf at wolfnet.org
Wed Sep 17 00:00:16 EDT 2008


On Sep 16, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> I have an artist friend with a bunch of OS X machines who can't  
> remember his
> root's password. His user account has admin privileges and so has  
> never
> needed it.

Apple disables the root user by default because for most people, they  
never need to use it. Anything root can do, you can do yourself  
through sudo.

If you really need to reenable the root user, see the following page,

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528

-- 
Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org






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