OS X V10.7 Lion :: Enabling Root User From Directory Utility
May 16, 2012I am trying to enable the root user from the Directory Utility Edit Menu. It was greyed out. Why and how I can enable the root user?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Enabling And Using The "root" User In Mac?
May 9, 2012I can not find the enable root user in, I am using Lion
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Enabling And Using The "root" User In Mac
May 15, 2012In step 9 of enabling root for Mac OS X Lion, the answer mentions the Edit menu. However, I can find no such thing. Where is it?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Test1.txt Test2.txt And So On In Root Directory?
Jun 4, 2012I recently upgraded to Lion and now I see some strange test.txt documents on the lowest level of my hard drive. They are filled with some xml and soap stuff. Last one is made nearly a year ago. What frightens me is that it contains passwords. The documents are found by spotlight so a password search on my mac will come up with those documents.Were are they coming from?Can I safely remove them? an example:
[code]...
OS X :: Cannot Log Onto 10.4 System - Enabling Root?
May 7, 2009Well I don't have the Tiger CD anymore but I heard I can boot into single user mode and enable root? I tried this but didn't work
/sbin/fsck -y
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/SystemStarter
passwd root
Is it different for tiger?
Software :: Root Access By Enabling Actual Account Briefly
Mar 27, 2010On my Mac (10.6.2), I always would do this to access root if I had to:
sudo su - or just
sudo su
Well, I had to enable the actual root account briefly and then I disabled it. Now, I can't do sudo su or sudo su -, I just get a Sorry message. If I renable root, I can do it. What's also interesting is that both sudo -i and sudo -s work just fine with root disabled. Why can I no longer do "sudo su -" with root disabled?
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Move Files From Root To User?
Jun 2, 2012I was having a lot of problems with my new (Christmas 11) MPB. It was very sluggish and occasionally would freeze. I took it to my Apple Store and the Genius said I was running all my apps in root and had too many files on the desktop.They should be under a user. Any files on the desktop are refreshed frequently, such as graphics (CAD, pictures, etc.) and that was what was killing performance. She then proceded to move my files/apps to my user profile.
Since I am the only user, I never paid any attention to where the files were.I would like to verify the information above and do the same process on two other computers, but I didn't catch enough of what she did to do it solo.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), I7, 8GB, 750GB, Lion
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Logging Back In To Account After Using Root User
May 1, 2012After enabling the root user and logging into that account I tried to log back into my regular user and found that everything was set back to default. No files, pictures, anything... Â
Going into the Users folder I can see my account and it has all of the files on the desktop and such.Â
How do I log back into my regular user account with all of my settings?Â
Mac OS X Lion Server :: Migrate Local User Profile To Active Directory User Profile
Mar 22, 2012I have Macmini 2.1 2007 year
After install 4 GB RAM (work only 3 GB) i install MAC OS X 10.7.3
Now i joined Macmini to Domain Active Directory 2008 R2. Joined via standard tools.
Macmini have a local user.
How i can migrate all settings, all data local user to Domain user?Â
When i used MAC OS X 10.6.8 i can joined to Domain via Likewise Open, and after i can use Likewise tools for migrate.
But now, in MAC OS X 10.7.3 i can't joined to domain via Likewise... and use migrate tools.Â
OS X :: Directory Utility And Directory App In Snow Leopard?
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OS X :: Full Path Name Of Root Directory?
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May 23, 2012On my Mac Mini, I have set up a new user because of problems with the OS. So far, it is working fine. I also have a G5 running OS 10.4.11. There is an account on both machines with the same name. However, the new account on the Mini is a different name. The G5 does not offer the "login as" (at least that I can see, so my access to the new account on the Mini is limited to a dropbox. To simplify: A is the account on both the Mini and the G5, B is the account only on the Mini. I tried extending the permissions on B's home directory, but that did not work. Using get info, I unlocked the file then tried to add A to the list of users. For some reason, nothing happened.Â
How can I give user A permission to access user B's home directory on the Mini?
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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Change User Account Name Or Home Directory Name?
May 15, 2012I've a user who has been given a company shared MacBook Air. The account name was previously our company name, but I've sucessfully followed the guide [URL] to change this. Thus, the username is now now his firstname & lastname. The home folder is firstnamelastname. However, the old username (our company name) is still showing up as the username for some email recipients and airdrop.I'm guessing the email name might be saved localy on a few of the users contacts since he's been sending a few emails before the user name was updated. Can this be confirmed in any way?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: Private Folder In Root Directory After Time Capsule Restore
Jan 30, 2010I have a strange "/private" folder in my root directory (Macintosh HD) after a Time Capsule restore today. The folder is ~5GB in size, and appears to have been created during the restore process. The files in the folder have strange-appearing "system" file type names. Can I safely delete this folder? Not sure why its there, but given its size, I'd prefer to delete it.
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Feb 4, 2012With the update to OS-X 10.7.3 did anyone lose the entire Library folder from their user directory? I didn't notice until I started working on the installation of an application (beta version) and found the my entire ~/Library/ folder gone, all 57+ GBytes of it. I'm restoring it from Time Machine two days ago, but I wonder what happened with the update to completely remove it.
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Jun 21, 2012Adding 10 IMACS with OS 10.7 to my active directory domain. I would like for all users to have the same basic user settings at log in. how I can configure the MAC clients.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: How To Migrate Root User Having Only HD
Apr 7, 2009I finally took the plunge and ordered a MacPro quad 2.66. I am waiting for it, and in the meantime I might sell my Dual g5 1.8. The problem is that like this I could not transfer the files from one mac to the other. Second problem is that I run my machines as root in order not to have to deal with any security question (I know, it is a bit reckless, but knowing nothing about unix I started like that with the G5 5 years ago...), and I see that everything is in hidden files/directories that cannot be accessed easily (I thought I could enter in the new machine as root and I could access the root user data on the other disk, but it doesn't work, I tried on another machine).
Is there any clean solution that allows to move one root user from one disk, installed on the Pro, to the boot disk. Otherwise, any unclean (i.e. scripts etc)?
OS X :: Enable Root User In Snow Leopard?
Jul 26, 2009enabling root user in Snow Leopard (10A421). I tried to find the directory utility in utitlites but couldn't find it. I read in other threads that Directory utility has been removed and all the functionality is moved to user accounts. But didn't find how to enable the root user.
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OS X :: How To Run ITunes Across Multiple User Accounts - Run It As Root?
May 30, 2010I currently have itunes on two accounts set to access a library at /Users/shared/iTunes/. The problem is if iTunes is running on one account and I try to launch it on the other, it gives an error saying it doesn't have write access. It needs to stay running on one for my appletv. Is there a way to start it and have all accounts have access to it as a single process? Run it as root?
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May 5, 2009an ibook g4 which I believe is running 10.3. Last night Safari kept unexpectedly shutting down, so she restarted her computer and now it will not go past the grey screen with the dial. This is a used computer she purchased from a friend and the CD drive is not working, so we cannot load the install CD to try and solve that problem.
I have used previous answers to check the harddrive in single-user mode by using fsck -fy and the Macintosh hd appears to be OK, but when I try to boot the system in single-user mode, I eventually get the message "membered[68]: Couldn't find root user. Sleeping and trying again".
OS9/OS8/System 7 :: Applications Only For Root Are Displayed Even With User Login
Apr 20, 2012I am using MBP Pro with OSx 10.7.3. I use admin account. Recently I enabled root account and then disabled it back again. Since then I am seeing applications only for root and not for admin even with admin login. If I go to /Users/<admin username>/Library/Preferences, I can see that the applications has relevant files over there. When I looked more carefully I observed that, I am able to see the applications installed for the root only and not for the admin user. Is there any way to corrrect this?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Why EnsenaSoft Games Not Work On Root User
Apr 28, 2012I recently downloaded some Ensenasoft games on to my mac but on the root user they just jump on the dock a few times then just close. But on my normal user they work why is this?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Applications :: QuickTime Streaming Server - Broadcast As Root User Only
Mar 5, 2009I have a server setup with Quicktime Streaming Server. I have installed Quicktime Broadcaster/Quicktime Player on my MacBook. My problem is that I am only able to broadcast as the root user. Also I can only receive a broadcast via Quicktime Player 7.6 as the root user. Is the firewall blocking the rtsp protocol? I am completely stuck and befuddled.
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However, every time do an su or a sudo -s, I still get sent into the old /bin/sh shell. I have completely restarted the system, and this still occurs (the /bin/zsh entry is still there for root in /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd after reboot). /bin/zsh properly appears in /etc/shells, so I know that this is not the problem.
OS X :: Unable To Find Directory Utility
Oct 28, 2007I need to enable the root account but cannot find the "directory utility" that is supposed to be in the utilities folder..
My mac is set to dutch and the dutch translation of the online docs has not yet been updated for 10.5.. Can anyone show me a screenshot of this app if it is even available? I've opened all apps in the utlities folder and can't find it..
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OS X :: User Directory Cannot Be Seen?
Oct 4, 2010i have upgraded my hard disk and restored from time machine back up!! the only issue is when i go to my mac hard disk the user directory cannot be seen??although if i search for it in finder using /User it finds it!!my question is how can i get the user folder to appear when i go to mac hard driver again?
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