Always worth mentioning that having root user enabled can be a significant security vulnerability. That's why it's not activated in default state of OSX, having the "sudo" command line functionality available instead. And if Kynan's system is in this irregular a state after his actions, this root being available even tho the system seems not to know it seems worth being concerned about. On Sat, 29 May 2004, Kynan Shook wrote: . . . > I still haven't figured out exactly why this occurred - maybe a corrupt > XML file somewhere. The root user is still enabled, as I can log in as > root using the above trick, but NetInfo Manager doesn't think it is > enabled. . . .