On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Kevin Wright wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
>>
>>> Why not add by default the first user created (right after installation
>>> finishes) to administrative group and disable the root account?
>>
>>
>> This is, is fact, how Apple has done things circa 1999 with Mac OS X. You
>> can 'su' to root, you can also 'sudo' but you can't literally login as root
>> either in text console or GUI, the account is disabled. And the first user
>> is an 'admin' by default.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean but "you can't literally login as root either in
> the text console..."
>
> This is confusing to me since I've been using the root account on Mac OS X
> since 2001. I was working for Apple as a build engineer and all of our builds
> were performed using the root account.
>
> Here's an article that explains how to enable the root account:
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528
I'm not sure why you're confused. The account is disabled, and until it's
enabled you can't login as root, either using ssh, or entering ">" at the
loginwindow to get to a text console and trying to login as root there. Once
the root account is enabled you can.
Chris Murphy
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