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Re: Recover root/wheel password?

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On 2019-01-10, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2019-01-09 15:30, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> 
>> "My Free Pascal install didn't work correctly after upgrading to
>> macOS 10.14"
>> 
>> ...is nowhere *near* the same thing as your statement:
>> 
>> "10.14" is nowhere *near* the same thing as your statement that
>> "Mojave Command Line tools for 10.14 don't work well".
>> 
>
>  From my seat and use case that's the way it was...

Nope.

>> The command-line tools in macOS 10.14 work very well. What doesn't
>> work well is your Free Pascal setup.
>> 
>>> One poster on a Pascal site suggested adding a particular path to
>>> the fpc.cfg, but I couldn't get it to save.  (Now I realize I
>>> probably had to use vi, but not sure...).  I changed the permissions
>>> on the file, to no avail ... (changed 'em back too).
>> 
>> Do you have a good understanding of how *nix permissions work? It
>> sounds like perhaps not. The editor you use isn't the issue;
>> permissions are.  You could have used nano, emacs, vi, or any other,
>> as long as you did it with sudo or changed the permissions of the
>> file you were editing to allow you to write access to it.
>
> 1.  Used sudo.

Not correctly, you didn't.

> TextWrangler or Textedit would not save the modified file.

Due to the configured permissions.

> 2. Change the permissions of the file and verified the change.  Same
> result.

Not correctly, you didn't.

> I gave up on that and searched for more and found the 'revert to 10.13
> CLT suggestion.  Worked immediately.

Due to incompatibility in the version of Free Pascal you are using.

Again, none of this has anything to do with the quality of the macOS
command line environment.

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Recover root/wheel password? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2019-01-07 16:51 -0500
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-07 13:58 -0800
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-07 23:09 +0000
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 01:45 +0000
    Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 08:27 -0500
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 14:06 +0000
        Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 20:07 -0500
          Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-09 20:30 +0000
            Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-09 19:43 -0500
              Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-09 16:55 -0800
              Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-10 02:13 +0000
                Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-10 07:48 -0500
                Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-10 17:34 +0000
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-08 11:34 -0800
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-08 22:12 +0000
        Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 20:11 -0500
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-07 23:42 -0500
    Re: Recover root/wheel password? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2019-01-08 05:01 +0000
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-08 00:43 -0500

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