John Harrold wrote: >I'm not sure what you mean by enabled. I don't think you can disable the >'root' user on a unix machine and have it work. Every time you run sudo it >executes commands as root. This would not be possible if the 'root' user >was disabled. So, with 'root' disabled. (a misnomer, since root is not enabled in the first place, having no password, no shell default, no console access, etc)... try using sudo to cd your way into /private/var/root let me know how you do. brian s