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From: Ian Gregory on 23 Apr 2008 15:15
On 2008-04-23, The New guy <noemailhere(a)please.comm> wrote:
> In article <noemailhere-FCD543.13125923042008(a)news.mts.net>,
> The New guy <noemailhere(a)please.comm> wrote:
>
>> I rarely use Terminal but today seemed odd. I tried to type in my
>> password (same one I use for installs) after inputing su and it wasn't
>> accepted. Does su demand a different password? I tried all the
>> possible password combos (the caps lock wasn't on) and no luck. Even
>> tried su do and no luck. ???
>
> Well I found this page:
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010324095804436
> then used this: sudo passwd root
> and all seems fine. I wonder how it got changed?

If you were in a non-Admin account and wanted to gain admin privileges
using su you should have typed "su username" where username is the name
of an Admin account. Typing "su" on its own would try to su to root but
the root account is not enabled by default, and shouldn't be enabled
unless you know what you are doing - and it sounds like you don't:-)

Ian

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From: Jolly Roger on 23 Apr 2008 18:26
In article <noemailhere-9E823A.13154023042008(a)news.mts.net>,
The New guy <noemailhere(a)please.comm> wrote:

> In article <noemailhere-FCD543.13125923042008(a)news.mts.net>,
> The New guy <noemailhere(a)please.comm> wrote:
>
> > I rarely use Terminal but today seemed odd. I tried to type in my
> > password (same one I use for installs) after inputing su and it wasn't
> > accepted. Does su demand a different password? I tried all the
> > possible password combos (the caps lock wasn't on) and no luck. Even
> > tried su do and no luck. ???
>
> Well I found this page:
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010324095804436
> then used this: sudo passwd root
> and all seems fine. I wonder how it got changed?

How many times do I have to say this? Surely you've read it at least
ten times by now - I know I've said it at least that many times here:

Mac OS X is designed such that you can accomplish all administrative
tasks from a non-administrative account simply by entering the username
and password of an administrator when prompted. So while you do need to
*have* an administrator account, there's really not much of a reason to
run as administrator for day-to-day use.

Why are you enabling root? There's absolutely no reason to do so.

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From: Bob Harris on 23 Apr 2008 20:14
In article <fuo1ap$mh7$3(a)aioe.org>,
nospamatall <nospamatall(a)iol.ie> wrote:

> The New guy wrote:
> > In article <noemailhere-FCD543.13125923042008(a)news.mts.net>,
> > The New guy <noemailhere(a)please.comm> wrote:
> >
> >> I rarely use Terminal but today seemed odd. I tried to type in my
> >> password (same one I use for installs) after inputing su and it wasn't
> >> accepted. Does su demand a different password? I tried all the
> >> possible password combos (the caps lock wasn't on) and no luck. Even
> >> tried su do and no luck. ???
> >
> > Well I found this page:
> > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010324095804436
> > then used this: sudo passwd root
> > and all seems fine. I wonder how it got changed?
>
> just a guess, but if you had root enable in the past, and then found it
> isn't now, it's possible 10.5 disabled it. Might be to do with the
> switch away from NetInfo.

I had root enabled on Tiger. 2 weeks ago, I did an "Archive &
Install" of Leopard.

My personal account was fine. My root account has been disabled
again.

When I first started using Mac OS X (10.0 beta), this 'sudo' stuff
was all new to me, and having managed my own Tru64 UNIX
workstation along with several development test systems, I just
enabled 'root'. It was only in the past few years that I got used
to using 'sudo', so at this point, I'm most likely going to leave
'root' disabled.

Bob Harris
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