Actually, I think the root user has to be enabled through the system recovery.
Realize that before anyone answers saying yeah, go into terminal and anything that starts with sudo will be root, realize that isn't true at all. I thought that too at first, and was sadly proven wrong. All sudo does is to elevate your command to super user level. Even if you was to type sudo su that wouldn't really technically be root either. If you really want root access, which again as said before, you do this soly at your own risk, I kind a remember it being done through the recovery partition. I've never ever ever had a need to turn on the root account though, and God forbid the day I do, so I couldn't exactly tell you where to do it in there, but it's in your menu bar, I'm quite sure. Probably somewhere under the Utilities menu, if I had to guess. Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Quinn To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 4:10 PM Subject: Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions also, where do you go to be "root?" terminal, I assume? I forgot how to do it, and for that matter, I think I forgot my root pw anyway Sent from my iPhone On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: So then, what would be the case where you would need to go into the recovery first, as Apple has always told me to do it that way. I'm not doubting either of you. Please know that. I'm just trying to increase my knowledge on this. Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Kilburn To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions Hi, An addition to chris B's explanation, as the root user, in any MacOS version, you are able to manipulate and/or modify permissions on any active files. This, in itself, is scary and one of the reasons why you need to be very cautious when doing anything as the root user or even enabling the root user. So, repairing permissions does not require a Recovery Partition nor a separate startup volume, you just may be limited in what gets repaired. In 95% of the cases that something needs repaired, it can be done while still logged in to the running system. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 2, 2015, at 08:53, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: If the OS is up and running you can run disk utility and do a disk permission repair on the running system. Not sure if it is able to fix as many things as when booted from another system but you do have the option. You can't do a disk repair on the currently running system. CB On 9/2/15 10:32 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Guys, Hopefully one of you all can explain this to me. First off, I'm not saying anyone is being untruthful. It's very very! likely that I may just not be understanding things entirely. I don't clame to be perfect. I have a friend who will be left unnamed who has a mac system running Snowleopard. NO, it's not the guy on this list ironically. Anyway, they had to recently repair disk permissions on their main internal Macintosh HD. They can't upgrade to Yosemite, as their system won't support it. Anyway, they have misplaced the Snowleopard DVD which came with their system. Further, they don't have any other bootable partition internally nor externally. So here lies my question. How in the world were they able without the SL DVD media or another bootable partition to repair permissions on their main primary macintosh HD volume? Here's the thing. From what I remember, correct me if I'm wrong, Snowleopard didn't have a recovery partition, did it? Normally, after Lion and higher, you could just boot, and hold down command+R to go to recovery. From here, you could run Disk Utility, and repair permissions. That's not going to work though in SL, as there's no recovery that I recall, hince why you got a physical DVD back in the days. You can't exactly repair permissions though while booted into the OS though, as certain files and folders will be in use, and the volume will be locked, therefore not allowing a repair to be done. So, with no media, and no external bootable partition, and no recovery partition, how in the world is he/she doing this? Either something's not adding up here, or I'm just thoroughly confused, and my guess is, probably the ladder. 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