How To Enable The Root User In MacOS
Jan 08, 2018 Now we need change password in the settings mysql table. Run next command in the MySQL console to change the root password. Update user set authenticationstring=password('YOURNEWPASSWORDSHOULDBEHERE') where user='root'; Before run the command you need replace YOURNEWPASSWORDSHOULDBEHERE with your new root password. Jul 26, 2017 Until the version 10.6, Mac OS X came on physical installation discs, and you could use the original Mac OS X install disc to reset your password. If you’re still running an older version of the Mac OS X operating system and have the installation medium at hand, admin password recovery won’t be a problem for you.
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How To Reset & Change Admin Password On Mac OS X
I have just switched to Mac, from Windows and Linux. I have had my new Mac (a Power Mac G5, OS X 10.4.6) for about a week now. Today, for the first time, I tried out sudo and just su itself. Trouble in paradise...
su prompted me for a password. At no time during the set up of this Mac was I ever asked to enter a root password - I had hoped it simply hadn't been set, and typing 'su' would just log me in as root. Is there a default password that all Macs come with that I can use? Alternately, is there some way of setting the root password at this point?
For sudo, once I get past being able to log in as root, I will need to find the Mac OS X equivalent of what in Linux would be /etc/sudoers. Where does this live on the Mac?
Thanks!
su prompted me for a password. At no time during the set up of this Mac was I ever asked to enter a root password - I had hoped it simply hadn't been set, and typing 'su' would just log me in as root. Is there a default password that all Macs come with that I can use? Alternately, is there some way of setting the root password at this point?
For sudo, once I get past being able to log in as root, I will need to find the Mac OS X equivalent of what in Linux would be /etc/sudoers. Where does this live on the Mac?
Thanks!
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