At 11:32 AM -0600 2/3/02, Ted Spradley wrote:
>Can you log in as "root"?  Does OS X even have a root account?  If you
>can log in as root, you should be able to edit /etc/group with any text
>editor.

Unfortunately, this file to is controlled via wheel and I cannot edit 
it at the moment.

>   For all I know, the superuser account is not even called root
>in OS X.  Does the first line of /etc/passwd start with
>"root:*:0:0:..."?

Yes, there is the line:

root:*:0:0:...

in that file.

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