From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 7: 0:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F241337B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433EE43EA9 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA41379; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:00:23 -0800 Subject: Re: OS X root passwd From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Kevin Stevens , Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <28F8B736-052C-11D7-BA5D-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message