[CUBE] American Keyboard

Joost van de Griek joost at jvdg.net
Fri Apr 4 06:16:06 PST 2003


On 2003-04-04 16:11, J.C. Webber III wrote:

> In my opinion, using Netinfo Manager is *way* too complicated method to use to
> enable the root account.  Maybe because I'm an oldtime(r) command-line guy,
> but I find it much easier to just run the following command in the Terminal
> App:
> 
> sudo passwd root
> (enter *your* password to authorize this sudo command) (at the prompt, enter
> your preferred root password) (at the next prompt, enter it again for
> confirmation)
> 
> Works for me....

But it doesn't allow you to actually log in as root. And that was the whole
point.

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