On 8/28/02 9:45 AM, Herbert Goodfriend at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have Administrator privileges (and have auto login so you can
> start without entering the password), you can...
>
> Open System Preferences, then Users, then select yourself and click
> on "Edit User". In the window that opens, click on the Password tab
> and it will allow you to reset the password.
I currently run OS X in single-user mode. I do have administrator
priveleges. But my user ("amber") and the root user are two different
things. The root user is not enabled in OS X by default; I enabled it when I
got this computer, but haven't used it in about two months. I tried NetInfo
Manager, but it only allows you to change the password by entering the
current password first (and then creating a new one). It's not a *huge*
deal, since I have no need to login as root most of the time, but it does
make me nervous because my husband, a UNIX-head, said, "Well, in UNIX, if
you forget your root password, you're screwed! Reinstall!" This is a Mac...
there's gotta be an easier way!
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