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what brooks writes will work if you've already enabled the root user.

if you have not, the quickest way to do this is to log in as the admin 
user - which should be the first user created, and if it's the only 
user setup, then that's the admin user.  you, most likely.

open the terminal app.  type:

$sudo passwd root

it will tell you a bunch of crap, etc.. just set the password to 
something you'll remember, and not easily guessed.

now that you have given the root user a password, you have also enabled 
the root account itself.

now, you can do what brooks writes.

or you can do everything via sudo which i'm sure some whiner on the 
list will tell you to do.  it's pratically the same thing, and the same 
mistakes can be made using sudo.  now, if you actually took the time to 
really use sudo to its potential, then perhaps there would be a 
meaningful difference.  otherwise, root away!

--alan

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 02:54 PM, Brooks Graham wrote:

>
> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 04:53 PM, miln wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know how to log in as root in the terminal?
>
> Welcome to Darwin!
> [cube:~] brooks% su -
> Password:
> [cube:~] root#
>
> HTH