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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80089-help-my-only-user-has-lost-admin-privs-and-cant-susudo/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80089-help-my-only-user-has-lost-admin-privs-and-cant-susudo/#findComment-579268 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80089-help-my-only-user-has-lost-admin-privs-and-cant-susudo/#findComment-579277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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