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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Setting up "root" user in OS X "Mavericks"
Date: 4 Feb 2014 15:18:44 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-02-04, Peter James <pfj@doesn't.exist.com> wrote:
>
> I can't utilise "sudo" as neither my admin password or user password
> are accepted.  Can you tell me the way around this?

Make sure you didn't introduce a typo when you supplied the credentials
to sudo.

You need to be logged into an admin account to use sudo. 

If you are currently logged into a non-admin account, simply use the su
command to switch to the admin user, like this:

su adminusername

Supply the admin credentials when prompted. Once you are logged into the
admin account, you can use sudo as you wish, supplying the admin
credentials again when prompted.

If you are logged into the admin account and sudo is still not working,
then issue this command and paste the output into a reply here so we can
help you diagnose the problem:

id

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