[ale] OT: how to reset root pw on os X

[James Sumners]

Or just go into Settings > Sharing and enable "Web Sharing". That will
turn on Apache.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 12:00 am, Jason Fritcher wrote:
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
>> > I have an artist friend with a bunch of OS X machines who can't
>> > remember his
>> > root's password. His user account has admin privileges and so has
>> > never
>> > needed it.
>>
>> Apple disables the root user by default because for most people, they
>> never need to use it. Anything root can do, you can do yourself
>> through sudo.
>>
>> If you really need to reenable the root user, see the following page,
>>
>> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528
>
> Thanks.
>
> I may be trying to solve the wrong problem. I was trying to start apache for
> him and got a 'permission denied' on a file owned by root. So perhaps 'sudo
> httpd' would work...
>
>
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