macxpnux Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 How to activate the root user in Leopard ? It looks as the application we used for that is missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Hadley Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Drag over a copy of NetInfoManager from your Applications>Utilities folder in Tiger. It runs in Leopard and will allow you to define a root user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprezzatura Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 sudo passwd root This will also enable access to the root user and seems quicker than using netinfo to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macxpnux Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 > sudo passwd root Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Yea, sudo works, however I have seen an issue if you have multiple admin user accounts on one system where using sudo passwd root will prevent other admin users from being able to access administrative functions with their password. True, there are not many cases where one needs multiple admin accounts, but in that rare case, it has screwed me over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udecker Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Since the NetInfo manager is missing from Leopard, what facility does Apple want developers to use to modify these items? I know that they've migrated a number of things to newer technologies (such as launchd), but for things like user editing (I change my home directory to an external drive), where is that information supposed to be modified now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OryHara Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 How to activate the root user in Leopard ? It looks as the application we used for that is missing. sudo su (your pass) passwd root (root's new pass) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dortor Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 /Applications/Utilities/Directory Utility "Edit Menu" "Enable Root" or dsenableroot - command line tool has been there since panther 10.3 man dsenableroot for more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duransnipes Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I thought when leopard boots it boots into Root user mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macxpnux Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Nope, it runs as the user that you defined from the OSX installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dortor Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Since the NetInfo manager is missing from Leopard, what facility does Apple want developers to use to modify these items? I know that they've migrated a number of things to newer technologies (such as launchd), but for things like user editing (I change my home directory to an external drive), where is that information supposed to be modified now? you can right-click/control click on your user account in System Preference to edit user account settings (like home directory/shell), enable root is in Directory Utility (edit menu or using command line tool dsenableroot [10.3, 10.4 and Leopard], and editting mount records is in Directory Utilities - group creation can be done via dseditgroup (in Tiger & Leopard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p03 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 NetInfo Manager was replaced by Directory Utility. Why would any Unix ever boot into a root user? That would be totally insane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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