Re: Root User Issue

2013-05-21 Thread Richard Ring
Thanks for your message. I do understand the dangers involved in enabling and using the root user. And, your diagnosis of the VoiceOver issue was spot on. Several days ago, I got VoiceOver to come on, and found myself in something called "dictation im". Using the mouse, via the keyboard, I was ab

Re: Root User Issue

2013-05-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Previous cautions aside, although important, one thing that might be going on is that a Keychain dialog is popping up that is stopping your ability to activate VO, press Escape a few times to see if that dialog will go away then try cmd-f5 or fn-cmd-f5 to get VO to start. The Root user has

Re: Root User Issue

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Blouch
In a similar vein, the few times I ever needed root access was in the terminal app to run certain commands. I never needed to log into the system as root. Would be interesting to know what you want to do. CB On 5/19/13 1:40 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: Let's get a few things straight. 1. In the

Re: Root User Issue

2013-05-19 Thread Chris Gilland
Let's get a few things straight. 1. In the first place, aside what you say to appreciate the differences, what exactly were you trying to do that required root access, as that is normally strongly discouraged unless it be a very last resort. 2. Summarize for me the process that you took to en