CPngN Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I don't know how or when this happened, but I seem to have lost root privileges on my hackintosh 10.4.8. I went to install the free 1passwd they're offering and it naturally asked me for my pass. Failed. Looked in Accounts, my only non-root/guest login "cpn" is now a "Standard" user. I boot with Acronis boot selector so doing the Apple+S trick to get into single user mode is hard or impossible to do now. I can't edit Boot.plist cuz..... I need the root password! W T F?!?! :censored2: Anyone have ANY idea how I can repair this? I was just about to try 10.5.1 too, but I'd like to fix this first! (Maybe I don't need to..? hmm) Some info from Terminal: N2OSX:~ cpn$ users cpn N2OSX:~ cpn$ groups cpn appserveradm appserverusr games A bunch of things are owned by root:80. 80?!! How does stuff like this happen anyway if one is not playing with users/accounts? N2OSX:~ cpn$ dir / total 9899 drwxrwxr-t 30 root 80 1122 Jan 4 22:13 ./ drwxrwxr-t 30 root 80 1122 Jan 4 22:13 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 cpn 80 15364 Jan 4 23:36 .DS_Store drw------- 9 root cpn 306 Jan 4 22:14 .Spotlight-V100/ d-wx-wx-wt 3 root 80 102 Jan 5 2007 .Trashes/ -rw------- 1 root wheel 217088 Dec 2 01:35 .hotfiles.btree dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 96 Jan 4 22:13 .vol/ drwxrwxr-x 50 root 80 1700 Oct 15 14:00 Applications/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root cpn 4096 Jun 26 2007 Desktop DB -rw-r--r-- 1 root cpn 6082 Mar 17 2007 Desktop DF drwxrwxr-x 48 root 80 1632 Jul 31 17:50 Library/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 80 11472 Mar 17 2007 MAU 1.1.2 Update Log* drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jan 4 22:14 Network/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jan 5 2007 System/ drwxrwxr-t 7 root 80 238 Feb 15 2007 Users/ drwxrwxrwt 6 root 80 204 Jan 4 22:14 Volumes/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root 80 136 Jan 6 2007 automount/ drwxr-xr-x 40 root wheel 1360 Jan 5 2007 bin/ drwxrwxr-t 2 root 80 68 Jul 1 2006 cores/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 4 22:13 dev/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 11 Jan 5 2007 etc@ -> private/etc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 9 Jan 4 22:13 mach@ -> /mach.sym -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 628676 Jan 4 22:13 mach.sym -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4159428 Dec 28 2006 mach_kernel drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jan 4 22:13 private/ drwxr-xr-x 63 root wheel 2142 Jul 31 18:01 sbin/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 11 Jan 5 2007 tmp@ -> private/tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 Jan 17 2007 usr/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 11 Jan 5 2007 var@ -> private/var drwxr-xr-x 3 cpn 80 102 Mar 23 2007 www/ TIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilis Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I'm too lazy to look it up, but is HFS+ mountable by Linux? If so, boot a Linux CD (Knoppix works well) and try mounting your partition from there. You should then be able to do any editing you need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Cant you boot from the installDVD and reset the password? SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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