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Run any ScreenSaver from the Login window
Authored by: gshenaut on Jun 15, '04 03:32:47PM

...robg adds: I haven't tested this one, as my root account isn't enabled, and I have no intention of enabling it...

I think that "enabling" the root account in os/x-speak just means changing the password entry from "*" to an actual password. So, the root user (with uid=0) already exists (and AFAIK must always exist).

Therefore, you could do this hint without "enabling" the root account, I thimk.

Greg Shenaut



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Run any ScreenSaver from the Login window
Authored by: mazatty on Jun 16, '04 01:47:20AM

right, you don't need to "enable" the root account to do this.

all you need to do is start up System Preferences as root. to do this you can use sudo with an admin account, like so

sudo /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences

to help keep track of what apps are running as root, it's handy to change the appearance settings for root. if you use the Aqua appearance, set root's to Graphite.

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