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

[Cover, Chris]

That .AppleSetupDone trick is the reason I locked the firmware. I had one
machine hijacked this way. They reset the machine and enabled the root
account. Dummy left his personal desktop on the computer which is how I
found out that the machine had been hijacked. t makes my job a little bit
more difficult, but i don't want to be the admin that has a porn server
found in one of my labs ( it's happened here before on an NT box).
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> From: 	Robert Ameeti
> Reply To: 	Mac OS X for Users
> Sent: 	Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: 	Mac OS X for Users
> Subject: 	Re: [X4U] Single user not an Admin user: A fix anyone?
> 
> > On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 08:16AM, Robert Ameeti
> <robert at ameeti.net> wrote:
> >
> >>>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'.
> >>--
> >
> >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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