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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: sjah on Mar 10, '04 03:44:34PM

Thou shalt not log in as root?

Is Apple infallible? Must we never go under the hood? Must we not tinker? Must we be satisfied with what we are given and never push boundaries?

I think you must have a pretty boring spread if you never log in as root.

It it one of the joys of OSX

If anyone doesn't knolw how to log in as root here's a brief trip:

open a terminal (Applications>utilities>terminal) and

type: sudo passwd root

enter your password,

Upon the "changing password for root" prompt
enter a new password for root. (don't loose it and make sure it's a good one)

when you're done if you change your login options to ask for a username and password you can enter root, the password and log in with no permission restrictions.

WARNING: Make sure you back up often and try to know what you're doing before you experiment. This is a power tool.

enjoy freedom from permissions.

_sjah



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