[X4U] Single user not an Admin user: A fix anyone?

[Robert Ameeti]

> On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 08:16AM, Robert Ameeti <robert at ameeti.net> wrote:
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>>>Yes, I think Rober twas missing my point. He was still trying to log into
>>>root without enabling it first. I just composed an email response to him
>>>and sent it to the list but forgot to send it plain text and it got
>>>rejected, d'oh!
>>>
>>>Anyway Paul, you have now confirmed that you can indeed "enable' root via
>>>the CD - thanks!
>>
>>Enabling root is not the hurdle that I have. It is allowing for root to be accessed when the Display Login Window is set to Name and Password. It would appear that your setting is for List of Users. If ours was set to list of users, then we would then get the drop  down and be able to tell the system that we wanted to log in as 'root'.
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>If root is enabled, there will be a "Other User" when there is a "List of Users". If Login Options is set to "Name and Password" and root is enabled, just enter root as "Username" and use whatever password you reset it to.

After resetting the .AppleSetupDone parameter and having a normal system, I have found that my root was not actually getting enabled via the CD. Now that I have an Admin user, I can now enable root properly. Once enabled, I get the Other User button in the List of Users. With that, I can enter 'root', its password, and all is as it should be.

Thanks for your interest.

>Nick Scalise
>nickscalise at mac.com

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Robert Ameeti

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