You've exhausted my meager knowledge of OS X, and we've strayed from the
topic of this list.  You'll have to find some OS X resources.

Good luck.

Eric Gorr wrote:
> 
> 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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