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Date:      Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:00:23 -0800
From:      "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
To:        Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, <bbrummer@solar.com.br>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OS X root passwd
Message-ID:  <BA0F6407.15455%pscott@skycoast.us>
In-Reply-To: <28F8B736-052C-11D7-BA5D-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>

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> On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 04:40 US/Pacific, Bernardo M. Brummer wrote:
> The root account isn't enabled by default.
> Run Netinfo Manager, located in Applications/Utilities

I SERIOUSLY would NOT recommend doing that. Leave the root account disabled.

Instead, use 'sudo' or 'sudo -s' for root access. This should suffice for
anything you need to do.

-- 
Paul A. Scott
mailto:pscott@skycoast.us
http://skycoast.us/pscott/



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