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

Tim Watts timtw at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 17 01:47:29 EDT 2008


On Wednesday 17 September 2008 12:00 am, Jason Fritcher wrote:
> 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

Thanks.

I may be trying to solve the wrong problem. I was trying to start apache for 
him and got a 'permission denied' on a file owned by root. So perhaps 'sudo 
httpd' would work...


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