[G4] Clean Install clean up

[Steve O'Neill]

Yes, this is a "permission issue".  Root is the SuperUser, who can do anything, 
even things Administrators can't.  OSX normally does not enable login as root, 
but you may need to do that to delete the folder in X, unless you can open "Get 
info" on the folder, choose ownership and permissions, change its ownership to 
yours, then delete it.  I don't know if you can because I don't have such a 
folder at the moment, it depends on if you have permission as admin to take 
ownership (I think you can).

Anyway, if you do enable root, be careful; with unlimited power comes unlimited 
responsibility :-).  To login as root, open a terminal window and type "su" and 
it will ask you for a password.  To log out (back to your regular login), type 
"exit".

You can chdir (change directory) to the directory that contains the one you want 
to delete, then login as root and use the "chown" (change owner) to what ever 
you want.  Use "man chown" (show me the "manual" for the "chown" command) for 
more info.  Use "man su" for more info on logging in as the superuser (whose 
name is root).

All file names and commands in unix are case-sensitive: "CHOWN" for example, 
will not work, nor will "chdir /Bin" (should be "/bin").

You don't need to be root to do most of the above, either.  If you get an error 
message on something that should work (permission denied) login as root and 
you'll be able to.  Remember that this permission thing is a *very_good_idea*; 
if you don't have permission, OSX is protecting itself and other users from you.

Or, as you say, you can bypass protection altogether and delete it from OS9. 
That's what I'd do.  Not classic, but a booted OS9.  That's what I used to move 
those pesky "mach*" files the first time I made my Mac unbootable :-).

Goldberg, Franck (x2187) wrote:
> In 10.2, I could drag to the trash and delete the old system 9 folder but
> not the old X folder.  Error message "owned by root". Should I try from 9,
> leave it alone or figure out who's root?  Thanks for your answers, I'm
> trying to understand how X works in the background.  Is this a 'permission
> issue'?
> Franck 
> 
>>Can I safely trashed them two?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Paul